Alexander Kluge Movies

With pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Documentary short about the stage play "Wessis in Weimar"

The domain of love is intimacy. It orients itself on the individual and the specific. At the same time, it is in fact less individual than one might...

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

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

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...

An homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz.

An essay from Edison's famous 1903 short film recording the execution by electricity of a tame elephant from Coney Island's Forepaugh Circus.

With Durs Grünbein The Dresden poet Durs Grünbein published a book entitled "To the Dear Dead: 33 Epitaphs." It enlisted the use of an...

The G8 Summit in Heiligendamm presented the security organizers with immense problems. The seaward boundary posed a particular risk. Hans-Erich...

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...

Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to...

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

Destinies and emotion: An eagle kidnaps a child; a tiger saves a persecuted woman; a lieutenant robs a maiden of her innocence; a young lady must...

A short about the German composer and royal bandmaster Joseph Martin Kraus, often nicknamed ‘the Swedish Mozart’. A young man is seen...

Song from 1932: "From the North Pole to the South Pole, it's just a short hop." The case of a famous pilot's suicide. A grand total of twelve musical...

Short philosophical film

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...