DIE ARTISTEN IN DER ZIRKUSKUPPEL: RATLOS

Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge (Halberstadt, Germany, 1932) is a film director, writer, and philosopher. He studied under Adorno at the Frankfurt School, he worked as Fritz Lang’s assistant in The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959), and he was one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto of 1962 that created New German Cinema. He made his directorial debut in 1966 with Yesterday Girl, winning the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, which he followed two years with a Golden Lion later for Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968). In 2008, the Berlin Film Festival awarded him the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievements. He wrote several books and influenced major authors like Enzensberger and Sebald. The Italian published L’Orma Editore published his anthology Antico come la luce - Storie del cinema.

FILMOGRAFIA

Abschied von Gestern (La ragazza senza storia / Yesterday Girl, 1966), Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos (Artisti sotto la tenda del circo: perplessi / Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed, 1968), Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin (Le occupazioni occasionali di una schiava / Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave, 1973), In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod (Quando un grave pericolo è alle porte le vie di mezzo portano alla morte / In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death, 1974), Der starke Ferdinand (Ferdinando il duro / Strongman Ferdinand, 1976), Die Patriotin (The Patriotic Woman, 1979), Der Kandidat (The Candidate, doc., 1980), Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit (The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time, 1985), Vermischte Nachrichten (Notizie varie / Miscellaneous News, 1986), Happy Lamento (2018).