Alexander Kluge

Ernst Alexander Kluge ( born February 14, 1932 in Halberstadt ) is a filmmaker, television producer, novelist and screenwriter as well as a doctorate lawyer.

He became known as one of the most influential representatives of the New German Cinema, which he co-founded and developed in theory and practice.

Life

Alexander Kluge was born the son of a doctor. He is the older brother of Alexandra Kluge, which he used later in several of his films as an actress. He first visited the Halberstadt Domgymnasium. In early 1945, his parents separated. On April 8, 1945, the thirteen- year-old witnessed the destruction of his home town of Halberstadt in an air raid. He survived while only reaching than ten meters next to him struck an explosive bomb. He then moved with his mother to Berlin -Charlottenburg, where he made his Abitur at today's Heinz Berggruen - Gymnasium. He studied from 1950 Law, History and Church Music in Freiburg, Marburg and Frankfurt am Main. In 1956, he was with a dissertation on The University self-government. Their history and current legal status as Dr. jur. doctorate.

After passing his exams Assessor 1958 he settled in Berlin and Munich later as a lawyer. It did not take long before he turned to literary work. Kluge went to Frankfurt am Main, in Hellmut Becker, the legal adviser of the Institute for Social Research, abzuleisten his legal clerkship. Adorno mediated Kluge to Fritz Lang, who should dissuade him from his literary efforts, as he held the literature for a " closed area ".

1958 Kluge graduated from a traineeship at CCC film, while Fritz Lang there the film turned The Indian Tomb.

In the 8th West German Short Film Festival Oberhausen 1962 Kluge was one of the initiators of the Oberhausen Manifesto, a political and aesthetic declaration of independence of young German filmmakers who calls the move away from the old German film. In the 1960s, Kluge was by films such as Farewell to Yesterday (1966 ) is an important representative of the New German Cinema of auteur cinema.

From 1963 he taught as a professor at the Ulm School of Design and managed by Edgar Reitz, the Department of filmmaking. In the same year he founded his own production company, Kairos film. In 1973 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

On 26 April 2007 was awarded to Alexander Kluge of Federal President Horst Köhler, the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Kluge is married to Dagmar Steurer since 1982 and has a daughter (* 1983) and a son ( born 1985 ).

Writers and theorists

In collaboration with the sociologist Oskar Negt he wrote several journals and books, including Public Sphere and Experience (1972 ), History and obstinacy (1981) and proportions of the Political (1992). These books were reissued in 2001 by the two authors together under the title The underrated man.

Kluge is considered as an authority in the field of film theory and is the author of several standard works on film analysis. His theoretical conception was formative for the avant-garde intellectual New German Cinema of the 1970s and 1980s.

The bulk of his literary work is a literary nature - mostly short and shortest stories. In 1962, the invitation to the group 47 can be seen as the beginning of the career. He sees himself more as a writer than as a filmmaker. "I am and remain primarily a book author, although I have made ​​movies or TV Magazine" The published in 2000, chronicles the feelings with the two partial volumes based stories and lives is a collection of previously published literary work of Alexander Kluge. In 2003, with the gap that makes the devil a compilation of 500 new stories that deal especially with the events of 11 September 2001. Published in 2006, Alexander Kluge 350 more stories under the title next door to another life.

In June 2012, he held, at the invitation of the Goethe University Frankfurt poetics lectures in which he grappled with theory and practice of narration. Under the title theory of narrative Kluge held four lectures, which were both very well attended as discussed enthusiastically in the feuilleton. In April 2013, the poetics lectureship also appeared on DVD with a detailed booklet and a reading at the Literature House Frankfurt, which took place right after the conclusion of the lecture and to this anknüpfte again.

TV producer

With the establishment of DCTP ( Development Company for Television Program) in 1987, he managed to create a platform for independent programs in the German private television. The shareholders of dctp are Alexander Kluge ( 37.5 %), the Japanese advertising agency Dentsu (37.5%), the Spiegel publishing (12.5 %) and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG (12.5 %).

Since then, Alexander Kluge is responsible for the independent TV Culture Magazine 10:50 and Prime-Time/Spätausgabe in RTL Television, News & Stories in Sat.1 and midnight Magazine, dctp reportage and partially dctp nightclub in VOX. Also is aired in the night program of Sat.1 Around The monthly hour of the filmmakers. " His goal " be it, it is said to Wise homepage, " the television to keep open for what takes place outside of television ."

The DCTP commitment at RTL earned him also allege that the DCTP unjustifiably have privileged access or a monopoly position as so-called "third- end provider" on RTL. The former ARD Tagesthemen presenter Ulrich Wickert filed in August 2008 in this context, a lawsuit against the responsible State Media Authority of Lower Saxony before the Administrative Court of Hanover. Beige store were RTL and Alexander Kluge. All three parties rejected the allegations.

For the DCTP Culture Magazine Alexander Kluge led between June 1988 and November 1995 a series of interviews and discussions with fellow East German playwright Heiner Müller, which are open to the public since 2007 on a common website of Cornell University and the University of Bremen.

On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Alexander Kluge came out in 2007, a 16 DVDs comprehensive exhibition of all 57 feature films ( short and feature films, complemented by selected television works and texts ); this gave the Goethe -Institut, the Munich Film Museum and the German Federal Cultural Foundation out together.

Movies

Works

• Christian Schulte ( eds.): In Danger and Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death. Texts on cinema, film and politics. Vorwerk 8, Berlin, ISBN 3-930916-28-2

• Volume 1: Basic stories.
• Volume 2: CVs.

• Volume 1: Keywords / Public Sphere and Experience / Mass ratios of the political.
• Volume 2: History and obstinacy.

• The gap left by the devil. In the environment of the new century. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-41488-7, ISBN 3-518-41489-5 ( Suhrkamp paperback, ISBN 3-518-45737-3 ) (Extract)
• On the Use of unsolved problems. Dirk Baecker, Alexander Kluge. Berlin: Merve. ISBN 978-3-88396-186-6.

• Ownership of the CV The whole in the work of Alexander Kluge, radio play

• The Labyrinth of tender force. 166 love stories. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-518-42125-3.
• Chronicle of emotions. Radio play, Bayerischer Rundfunk.

• The paw nature ( and we humans ) - The earthquake in Japan, which moved the world, and the character of Chernobyl. Radio play, First broadcast on 26 November 2011 at the Bavarian Radio ( CD edition, ISBN 978-3-888-97762-6 ).

• Persons and speeches. Wagenbach, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8031-1282-8.