Alexandra Kluge

Karen Alexandra Kluge ( born April 2, 1937 in Halberstadt ) is a German doctor and an actress. Notoriety she gained primarily through collaboration with her brother Alexander Kluge, who used them in several of his films.

Life

Training and successful film debut

Alexandra Kluge in 1937 as the daughter of the doctor Ernst Kluge and his wife Alice ( Birth name: Hausdorf ) born. She is the younger sister of the famous filmmaker Alexander Kluge. 1945 the family escaped the bombing of Halberstadt by Allied aircraft, in which the parental home was completely destroyed. After separation of the parents, her brother moved with his mother to Berlin- Charlottenburg, while Kluge attended school in the GDR. She studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin, then in Frankfurt and Munich and received his PhD on " Adolescent Anorexia " (Anorexia Nervosa, 1969). Later, Kluge worked as an assistant doctor in Berlin and as a hospital doctor in Frankfurt am Main. From 1991 to 2002 she worked as an assistant doctor in the oncology practice by Prof. Rühl in Berlin. Since 2002 she has been a freelancer for the cultural programs of the Cairo film at DCTP.

With the film Kluge came largely through her ​​brother in touch. For him, she worked as an assistant director and participated in the screenplay for the short documentary Teachers in Transition (1962 /63). A wide audience but it was only in 1966 known when she took over the lead role in farewell yesterday, the first feature film of her brother. In the drama she is seen as a young Anita G., daughter Jewish concentration camp survivor. After their escape from the GDR to the Federal Republic of the nurse is an easy target for career -seeking supervisors and unscrupulous traders and ends in prison. Farewell to yesterday celebrated its premiere in 1966 at the Venice Film Festival, where the film was awarded several prizes. They invented their own texts and played scenes with spontaneous ideas, after which she praised her brother as " my co-author ". After the Premio Cinema Nuova in Venice for Best Actress as well as the Rosa d' Oro of Film Journalists ( for the " likable personality of the XVII. Cinematic art show in Venice " ) received Kluge a year later the German Film Award for Best Actress and the media award Bambi.

Withdrawal from the Acting

Although the German critic Reinhard Baumgart in the Süddeutsche Zeitung compared the cooperation of the Kluge - siblings with that of Jean- Pierre Léaud and Truffaut, Alexandra Kluge put her film career after her successful screen debut discontinued. The reason she stated that she wanted to " do not verwursten from the large apparatus " themselves. Kluge was then only occasionally involved as an actress, spokesperson or screenwriter to her brother's films. "One can only regret that this fascinating woman who had the makings of a German Jeanne Moreau, then has hardly produced films and instead pursued her career as a doctor. ", So in 2010, in retrospect, the critic Andreas Platthaus ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ).

In the early 1970s familiar Alexander Kluge his sister the role of housewife and mother Roswitha Bronski in casual labor of a slave (1973 ), which attempted to engage in socio-political with the help of an abortion practice. After the contemporary review by Wilfried Wiegand ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Alexandra Kluge shine in the film " only a broken intellectuality " after her farewell yesterday " an indestructible naivety in his face " was the hit movie. The naivety of the main character only has legal effect yet shown their Roswitha B. WOULD " a bit silly " that call into question the real intention of Alexander Kluge. According to the time handle occasional work of a slave from the face of his leading lady: " When Alexandra Kluge is in the picture, it provokes affection, approval and spontaneous sympathy even or especially if she does everything wrong. A very open, unprotected face, vulnerable and completely abandoned and then decided again and sure with eyes, perplexed and anxious and resignedly accept the teachings of her husband or their odd jobs and yet can emit an unshakable inner peace. "

Kluge's last role was in the film essay The Power of Emotion (1983).

Private life

Alexandra Kluge married in 1968 Bion Steinborn and became the mother of a son (1968).

A close friendship she combined with the Hungarian literary scholar Péter Szondi (1929-1971), whom she met by Theodor Adorno in April 1963.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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