Alexander Kluge Movies

A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...

Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...

Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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

At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine...

Short by Alexander Kluge.

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

The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...

Alexander Kluge's 2012 Frankfurt lectures on poetics.

Alexander Kluge reflects on the medieval Staufer dynasty and draws a line from Emperor Barbarossa to Operation Barbarossa.

Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an...

The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...

In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip...

Film by Alexander Kluge.

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

Film about the Paper Tiger Television non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective based in New York City.

In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...