...Bernhard Malkmus This essay explores the relation between text and image in Alexander Kluge's literary work. The publication of Chronik der Gefühle , which accounts for Kluge's entire literary production until 2000, allows a detailed study of his techniques of intermediality and how they developed...

...Sabine Haenni Abstract Focusing on Alexander Kluge’s short film Chicago im Zeitraffer ( Chicago in Time Lapse ), this article inserts his work with moving images into a larger genealogy of the city symphony film. Elucidating his relationship with the historical cinematic avant-garde, as Kluge...

...Tara Hottman Abstract Analysis of recent exhibitions featuring Alexander Kluge’s earlier films and televisual work in dialogue with work by other artists demonstrates how the aesthetics of installation art and modes of exhibiting moving images in art museums and galleries have allowed Kluge...

...Dorothea Walzer; Mari Jarris Abstract Alexander Kluge’s oeuvre features aesthetic commentary as a process of problematization and investigation. With exemplary case studies of Kluge’s films, his literary collections of short stories, his television interviews, and his theory volumes composed...

...John Griffith Urang This reading of Alexander Kluge's Abschied von gestern (Anita G.) ( Yesterday Girl , 1966) highlights the central themes of pregnancy and childbirth in the film. Through Hannah Arendt's concept of natality, Urang suggests points of connection between the film's scenario...

...Martin Jay Miriam Hansen's studies of both American silent film and Frankfurt School film theory drew on the critique of Jürgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere developed by Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge. Expanding it beyond the bourgeoisie and stressing the importance of experience as well...

... the cinema of the Berlin School. Amalgamating various German and international influences, from Christoph Schlingensief, Alexander Kluge, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Linz) to Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the classical avant-gardes of the 1920s (Radlmaier), their student shorts and feature...

...Alexander Kluge; Leslie A. Adelson Abstract The roots of theory lie in the spirit of resistance and “essential powers” that Karl Marx and Immanuel Kant ascribed to human beings. The poetic power of social life seeks and finds counter-algorithmic expression through narrative capacities...

...Leslie A. Adelson Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Born in the German town of Halberstadt in 1932, Alexander Kluge is a polymath of twenty-first-century...

... it. These films “[pretend] to surface a coherence of social reality and human activity” and reproduce the status quo by making history appear as second nature. 38 Adorno’s position is thus closer to that of the filmmaker and theoretician Alexander Kluge—a student and friend of Adorno, and a big influence...

... coherent, autonomous self.”15 That detour through the Marseille notebooks then allows her to read the 11. Miriam Hansen, foreword to Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, Public Sphere and Experi- ence: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere, trans. Peter Labanyi, Jamie...

... Stücke 3, 50. 11. Kramm, “Gräber im Untergrund,” 36–37. 12. Heiner Müller in conversation with Alexander Kluge, “Wandlungsfähigkeit der Körper,” in Ich bin ein Landvermesser: Gespräche, by Alexander Kluge (Hamburg: Rotbuch, 1996), 146, 18. 4 Müllerʼs Memory Work my strongest impulse...

... film, gen- dered spectatorship, and the history of audiences was the inspiration of film- maker and theorist Alexander Kluge, with whom she shared a long friendship. Her first book in English, Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship and American Silent Film (1991), set a new standard for the history...

...” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Karin L. Crawford Intermediality and the Topography of Memory in Alexander Kluge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Bernhard Malkmus Contributors KARIN L. CRAWFORD is a junior research fellow in the Department of Ger- man...