Alexander Kluge Movies

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

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...

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...

The faces of humans and monkeys have 50 muscles. They are necessary for facial expression, laughing, and crying: 60 million years of evolution were...

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...

Murder ballads, ballads, and newspaper images tell humane and terrible stories. Dr. Ulrike Spengler, who compiled the Proust ABC, reports on "the...

Assuming that an observer living in the year 6000 would contemplate our period, for example, from 1607 to 2008 (approximately the era of our opera),...

Place and Time Without Reason Is Violence

Camp administrators at the concentration camps of the Third Reich circulated coupons and "bank" notes. A group of officers within the SS believed...

Animatronics, elephants, puppets, politicians, and more juxtaposed using three screens.

Paul Klee and Walter Benjamin described an "angel of history." The heavy gale blowing in from paradise propels this angel into the future. The movie...

The woman in the battlefield.

The play of the century, "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen, in the Munich Volkstheater. A young person in search of his "I": Peer Gynt. We see him at the...

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

The story of the Argentine tango star Carlos Gardel is retold in a (computer graphic) theater in which his 1935 movie is projected. If the tango is...

Opera stars face daunting competitive pressure. It's thus not unusual for some of the best among them to seek to improve their performance by...

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...

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

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...

Themes of 19th century opera are reprised and enacted in silent movies and old postcards. The program begins with a contemporary executive reenacting...