After completing his high school education in berlin, he studied law, history and music at universities in marburg and frankfurt am main and received his doctorate in law in 1956. In the current period of global economic crisis, kluge s documentary can be seen as a toolbox for investigating what is happening to our modern lives. Alexander kluges news from ideological antiquity home. Alexander kluge great director profile senses of cinema. Alexander kluge born 14 february 1932 is a german author, philosopher, academic and film director. News from ideological antiquity, is perhaps alexander kluge s most ambitious film. February 14, 1932, halberstadt, germany filmography bibliography web resources in february 1982 rainer werner fassbinder wrote a short article for berlinaletip, a special issue of the weekly berlin cultural magazine tip published during the berlin film festival.
Eisenstein was preoccupied with the question of how to capture capital on screen. Surpassing nine hours of viewing, news is a strange total work of art, rare in our century. Alexander kluge books list of books by author alexander. We dont perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. This inheritance of texts, across media and languages, is what informs the central discourse of kluge s 83minute collage work. New perspectives on creative arts and critical practice, organized by leslie a. Kluges stance is marked by wonder, questions and a certain amount of naivete that intends to show how marxs theory of commodity production is not outmoded. You can change region by clicking the flag in the toolbar. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Negt, over the past half century kluge has created a vast body of work that can be regarded as a continuation, in word and image, of the critical theory of the frankfurt school. Kluge is also one of the major german fiction writers of the late20th century and an important social critic. Critique of political economy, by karl marx, is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, and how it was the precursor.
But how could one cinematize eisenstein money, commodity, profit. Kluge, alexander 1932 people and organisations trove. Elsaesser identifies some of the rhetorical tropes that kluge typically uses to achieve this. Jan 24, 2009 and so we come to alexander kluge and his art. These two met in 1929 to discuss filming marxs kapital which had been written 60 years beforehand. His fictional works, which tend toward the short story form, are significant for their formal experimentation and insistently critical thematics. On thursday, october 11th 2018, michael jennings, class of 1900 professor of modern languages and professor of german at princeton university, delivered the keynote lecture for the conference alexander kluge. In an exploratory movement that is both horizontal in the present and vertical back in time, ekardt establishes transhistorical kinships and synergies between kluge s artistic concerns and those of others, both present and past. Was one of the founders of the oberhausener manifest in. Kluge does not seek to reconstruct eisensteins unfilmed film. But, eighty years later, the idea gave powerful inspiration to alexander kluge to. Alexander kluge, a wild beat that the public skipped we dont perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. Alexander kluge film essay dedicated to sergey eisenstein unrealized project the film adaptation of karl marx capital. Kluge was born in the town of halberstadt in the vicinity of magdeburg in 1932, the son of a doctor.
The theatrical cut of alexander kluges epic length video work news from. Cultural history in dialogue is a joint project of cornell university, universitat bremen and princeton university. Kluge features friedrichs work in books and films from the late 1970s. This inheritance of texts, across media and languages, is what informs the central discourse of kluges 83minute. Mark pezinger books 1 markus selg 1 marlene engel 1. International conference on and with alexander kluge, october. Dance of values sergei eisensteins capital project after 8 books. The value of toward fewer images is its ability to unravel and disclose the conceptual richness of alexander kluges oeuvre. His notes for the capital project accessible only in recent years also allow us to discover a director completely different from the maker of battleship potemkin. Em seu ambicioso noticias da antiguidade ideologica. This resource is very relevant to your query score. German, with english subtitles the above is an artistic interpretation of of alexander kluge s vermischte nachrichten. The day hitler shot himself and germanys integration with the west began, and more on.
In 1960, kluge finished his first short film in munich together with peter schamoni. Lyotard and numerous interviews on tv with alexander kluge. These days you cant choose how you want to express yourself anymore. In 2009, kluge set out to put to film sergei eisensteins plans to produce a film of marxs capital. Alexander kluge carefully examined eisensteins notes and created his own free adaption. Described, as a young man, as adornos favorite son o. Jan 21, 2009 via signandsight kluges monumental news from ideological antiquity. Marxs aim in capital, volume i is to uncover and explain the laws specific to the capitalist mode of production and of the class struggles rooted in these capitalist social relations. News from ideological antiquity marxeisensteinthe capital. The result is an avantgarde essay film about the present status of the political as written in the handout. It was entitled alexander kluge is supposed to have had a birthday. If marxs opus capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the concepts of. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
From kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth and for nearly a century kept the world on the brink of war. I could not find it mentioned anywhere in the item description that this edition would only contain half of the actual book. Kluge is also one of the major german fiction writers of the. From kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth. Alexander kluge has 72 books on goodreads with 2501 ratings. The result is an avantgarde essay film about the present status of the political as written in. Nothing came of it, but the project is still regarded as one of the most fascinating unrealised film projects in history. Via signandsight kluge s monumental news from ideological antiquity. Alexander kluge kluge is also one of the major german fiction writers of the late20th century and an important social critic. This translation of the psychosis of the internet age into images creates an atlas in which different variations on elvis presleys song blue. Books by alexander kluge author of the devils blind spot. Kluge made his first experiences with the film business under legendary filmmaker fritz lang who had returned from exile. Alexander kluge is a great manipulator, an industrious loom, who weaves the most farflung observations into his system.