Alexander Kluge Movies

An homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz.

"Love is Passing Moment, Art is Eternal." This is the title of one of the earliest cinema melodramas from Russia. As early as the year of the...

Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...

In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, for example the...

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...

A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...

Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.

Dusk at a construction site situated at the foot of where the Twin Towers once stood: "Public wounds heal slowly."

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.

A glass door prevents the occupation of a room.

The discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book "Post-heroic Management: A Manual" by Dirk Baecker, which...

This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

Short philosophical film

On the subject of circuses during wartime, illustrations and more are shown.