Alexander Kluge: 6 books

In seinen literarischen Texten, egal welcher Länge, sagt Alexander Kluge, was zu sagen ist, auf kürzeste Art und Weise. Er notiert sie auf schlichte DIN-A4-Blöcke, um sie anschließend zu diktieren. In dem vorliegenden Notizbuch umreißt er in wenigen Zeilen die emotionale Befindlichkeit einer...

April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global history. It was on this day that while the Red Army...

Revolving around the opera, these tales are an “archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence” (W. G. Sebald) Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluge’s Temple of the Scapegoat (dotted with photos of famous operas and...

Der Intellektuelle Alexander Kluge analysiert in seinem Essay die Möglichkeiten, das Internet kreativ zu nutzen und teilt seine persönlichen Erfahrungen: vom Gespräch mit seinen Kindern über Netzpoetik bis zu illegalen Kopien seiner Filme. Alexander Kluge fordert den besseren Schutz der klassischen...

The “public sphere” is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge...

The notion of 'the public sphere' has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity. The Idea...