Alexander Kluge Movies

Did the primal ocean originally cover the entire planet? What happened to organic life during and after the great ice age, which is sometimes called...

The world's only opera to trigger a revolution during its premiere is "The Mute Girl of Portici" by Daniel Francois Esprit Auber. The audience in...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important painters of the present, Alexander Kluge's television interviews are legendary. Over several years, the...

Count Alfred von Schlieffen, head of the German General Staff, developed in the years up to 1905 a promising plan which was to help the German Reich...

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...

As storms cross over an orchestra and notes fly by, a ship is sinking. While one woman sleeps, another is rescued (in her sleep?). An opera guide is...

Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Eric R. Kandel from Columbia University, New York, is considered the "Einstein of brain research". In the year 2000 he...

Spinoza being anti-authoritarian in the name of God/ That is the position of philosopher Spinoza

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

Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen...

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...

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...

Not unlike reindeer there was something in these people - yet not what they wanted or intended - that was more intelligent than them. There is no...

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

Place and Time Without Reason Is Violence

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...

Documentary showing the coaches of the French Revolution and more.