Alexander Kluge Movies

Mata Hari and the Danish baroness Carla Jesse are among the most powerful women in the history of espionage. Carla Jesse's method was the kiss of...

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...

On the subject of circuses during wartime, illustrations and more are shown.

Love stories with unhappy endings, love stories with happy endings. From Romeo and Juliet in Frankfurt to the "Selfless Virgin in New York", from the...

A 1970 TV discussion with Alexander Kluge.

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

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...

The holy days, from Good Friday to Easter Monday, aren't long enough to begin a new life. But they're too long to endure without a new life. That is...

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...

All the operas put together (and there are a total of 80,000 in the history of opera) form one single score. They accompany the past 400 years of...

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

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

Durs Grünbein's "Moscow Menagerie" is about a rare Saiga antelope, a female cheetah, a Mafioso named "Ironhand", the on-duty cobras...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

A reading by Alexander Kluge.