Alexander Kluge Movies

Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...

The world's only opera to trigger a revolution during its premiere is "The Mute Girl of Portici" by Daniel Francois Esprit Auber. The audience in...

Thanks to technological developments, film has been through many transformations. Now, with the development of Artificial Intelligence another...

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

65 mm is the technical format with the best qualifications for classic cinema. The images and the history of cinema shift (as if the film were a...

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

The woman in the battlefield.

The conversation begins on the topic of Müller’s plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has promised to write a libretto for...

Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between...

Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio: Why does this person speak and not sing? He longs to sing. Singing generally emerges when language becomes...

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

Alexander Kluge reflects on Eadweard Muybridge's work and the first modern Olympics.

The theme here is the rapid development from the beginning of the universe to the Gauls. At the half-way stage of this development, the Sahara became...

Hermes Phettberg, born October 5, 1952 in Hollabrunn, Austria, was the assistant vicar with the archdiocese of Vienna until 1981 when he was...

There is public debate as to whether we should return to the old German orthography established by the Duden dictionary in 1991, or insist on...

In 1912 the Titanic sunk. In retrospect the event appears like a number that refers to the subsequent catastrophes of the 20th century. Hans Magnus...

Not unlike reindeer there was something in these people - yet not what they wanted or intended - that was more intelligent than them. There is no...

Lung fish and lions, nightingales and whales express themselves through sounds - they "sing". But humans alone have developed...