Alexander Kluge Movies

The "Berliner Ensemble" is a theater company closely connected to names like Bert Brecht, Heiner Müller and Claus Peymann. Hary Balzke is the...

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...

Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images...

What is the difference between tenors, basses, sopranos, baritones, and altos in comparison to good and evil? The voice of the tenor cuts like a...

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

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

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...

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

Originally the marching song "The Flag on High," which had been part of Germany's national anthem, had an entirely different text. The song actually...

Fire brigades and rescue teams are the heroes of a disaster. They often save people's lives while risking their own. So it must have been terribly...

Aristocrats playing at the simple life are surprised by a revolution. Now, under emergency conditions, love relations develop with great power....

This video segment complements the 2014 English-language edition of History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, edited by Devin Fore and...

An opera film by Alexander Kluge

How does Clausewitz define war? What does the US president mean when he talks of a new kind of war in the 21st century? What does history teach us...

"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...

The German Army is today active in Africa, the Hindu Kush and in the Balkans. How do the troops respond to the new challenges? What does Clausewitz...

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.

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...

Selected scenes from the Christoph Schlingensief revue at the Berliner Volksbühne .