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Alexander Kluge

Born

in Halberstadt, Germany

February 14, 1932

Died

March 25, 2026

Genre

Fiction

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Kluge was born in Halberstadt at the year 1932.

He studied history, law and music at the University of Marburg Germany, and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt, where befriended the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, who was teaching at the Institute for Social Research, or Frankfurt School.

In 1960 he shooted his first films, before the launch of the New German Cinema.

He also was a remarkable fiction writer, which tended toward the short story form, significant for their formal experimentation and insistently critical thematics.

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	Air Raid by Alexander Kluge, Martin Chalmers (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cinema Stories 3.86 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's Blind Spot: Tales from the New Century 3.99 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	December by Alexander Kluge, Martin Chalmers (Translation), Gerhard Richter (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	30 April 1945: The Day Hitler Shot Himself and Germany's Integration with the West Began by Alexander Kluge, Wieland Hoban (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome by Alexander Kluge, Christopher Pavsek (Translator) 3.48 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Case Histories 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1962 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Temple of the Scapegoat: Opera Stories by Alexander Kluge, Donna Stonecipher (Translation), Isabel Cole (Translation) 3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dispatches from Moments of Calm by Alexander Kluge, Gerhard Richter, Nathaniel McBride (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor: 48 Stories for Fritz Bauer by Alexander Kluge, Alta L. Price (Translator) 3.46 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Phantasy provides a kind of temporary glue, which keeps people from falling apart through the production of illusions which enable them somehow to live with themselves.”
― Alexander Kluge

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