Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge was born in 1932 in Halberstadt, the son of a doctor, and saw his town destroyed by a bombing on 8 April 1945. A doctor of law in 1956 after studies at Marburg and Frankfurt, where he became close to Theodor W. Adorno, he was in 1958 an assistant to Fritz Lang. A signatory of the Oberhausen manifesto in 1962, he founded in the same year, with Edgar Reitz, a film institute at the Ulm school. An author of short narratives, he created in 1987 a company that produces cultural programmes for private television. He died in Munich on 25 March 2026.

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