Alexander Kluge Movies

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

Scenes from Nabucco (1842), I due foscari (1844), Macbeth (1847), Luisa Miller (1849), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Les vépres...

We see the celebration of New Year's Eve with fireworks in 1988, repeated exactly in 1923, in 1908, and in munitions explosions in 1812, as well as...

Thinking for oneself means: Seeking the touchstone of truth in one's own self. In his essay "What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking?" from...

With over 200 years it has been considered that romantic relationships must be spontaneous. This is paradoxical insofar as the imperative form "must"...

Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Eric R. Kandel from Columbia University, New York, is considered the "Einstein of brain research". In the year 2000 he...

Abbé Prévost wrote the most modern novel of the 18th century, "Manon Lescaut". A new currency appeared beside money, faith and reason:...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

An officer of the Stasi (East German secret police) on a special mission ("OibE") reveals all about his experiences during the crisis of October and...

A reference to the song of the same name, which carries the motif of "La Paloma" (the dove) and can be traced back to an episode that occurred in 492...

The British college tutor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly discusses the wartime deeds of fearless women. She also characterizes the male fantasies of...

When the German Reich sent its declaration of war to Paris via telegram, it arrived completely garbled. It sounds like a Dada text. No one managed to...

Dr. med. Josef Schlömicher-Thier is an otorhinolaryngologist working at the Salzburg Festival. He is particularly interested in the marvel of...

For a long time, Friedrich Nietzsche shared a young Russian woman with his best friend Paul Rée: Lou Andreas-Salomé. When they met, he...

It's said that love is blind. The truth is: Love makes you perceptive. Love stories are fundamental stories. In this realm of experience, we can test...

Händel's opera about the "writing on the wall" in Babylon: Belshazzar, the young, haughty King of Babylon, uses the temple goblets of the Jews,...

Fred Peickert lost his job in one of the new eastern German states. Ever since, he's been in a holding pattern, waiting for vocational...

In his two books on globalization, Professor Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics, describes the non-synchronism and asymmetry of the...