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Kong’s Finest Hour / Kongs große Stunde
A Chronicle of Connections
Of enchanted things, furnaces of the soul and the music of thoughts
To dissolve theory in concrete stories has been Alexander Kluge’s lifelong approach. To him, there is music in the texture of thoughts, and so with this book, Chronicle of Connections, he creates a counterpoint to the Chronicle of Feelings that was published fifteen years ago.
Alexander Kluge deals with the question of accessible spaces within humans and our million-year-old past. He covers these spaces in thirteen stations with shifting...Read more
To dissolve theory in concrete stories has been Alexander Kluge’s lifelong approach. To him, there is music in the texture of thoughts, and so with this book, Chronicle of Connections, he creates a counterpoint to the Chronicle of Feelings that was published fifteen years ago.
Alexander Kluge deals with the question of accessible spaces within humans and our million-year-old past. He covers these spaces in thirteen stations with shifting perspectives, but always in the form of precise stories. And so they’re stories about »experiences of reparation« as an essential life practice, just like they’re about the genealogical memory of father and mother. But it’s not only people that belong to a Chronicle of Connections; equally, it’s things with the human labour they contain. Isn’t it that often these things are also »enchanted humans« and hold novels within them? After all, art is regarded as »grand opera« in life and on the stage.»A collection of glistening ideas and disturbing scenarios on 700 pages. A Panopticon of civilization. […] Alexander Kluge is a collector of emotional adventures that he boils down to their essence in countless miniatures.« Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
»[Kluge] paints a panoramic picture of our present that you can imagine like a cubist painting, composed of many singular stories that refer to one another, are mirrored within another, that overlap, gathered according to the principle of the montage of a so-called ›Chronicle of Coherence‹.« Jochen Rack, Bayrischer Rundfunk
»A collection of glistening ideas and disturbing scenarios on 700 pages. A Panopticon of civilization. […] Alexander Kluge is a collector of emotional adventures that he boils down to their essence in countless miniatures.« Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
»[Kluge] paints a panoramic picture of our present that you can imagine like a cubist painting, composed of many singular stories that refer to one another, are mirrored within another, that overlap,...
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2015, 680 pages
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Alexander Kluge
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Alexander Kluge, born in 1932, is the director of numerous films and countless TV broadcasts as well as an author, but: »My books are my most important work.« He has received numerous awards for his oeuvre.
Alexander Kluge
Author
Alexander Kluge, born in 1932, is the director of numerous films and countless TV broadcasts as well as an author, but: »My books are my...
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Year of Publication: 2023
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2023
War Primer 2023
»War is back.« Alexander Kluge begins his latest book with this first of six stations, prompted by a war of aggression that is initially being waged in a European setting, but...
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English world rights (Seagull)
Year of Publication: 2022
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2022
The Book of Comments
Published to mark his 90th birthday, this is perhaps Alexander Kluge’s most personal book. The Book of Comments follows hot on the heels of its playful sibling Circus /...
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English world rights (Seagull)
Year of Publication: 2022
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2022
Circus / Commentary
The circus has fascinated Alexander Kluge since his earliest childhood and it is a phenomenon of his devotion that is preserved throughout his cinematic work (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel,...
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English world rights (Seagull)
Year of Publication: 2020
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2020
Russia Container
Not just in light of a currently contested pipeline but also after centuries of both exchange and rejection, Russia and Germany were and are as far away from each other as they are connected. The...
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English world rights (Seagull), Russia (Garage)
Year of Publication: 2017
Georg Baselitz, Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2017
World-Changing Rage
Rage and obstinacy are closely related. In the work of Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge they are fundamental categories. Rage is dynamic: it can grow and suddenly erupt into flaming protests,...
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English world rights (Seagull)
Year of Publication: 2014
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2014
30 April 1945
The thirtieth of April 1945, a Monday, was the last working day observed in the Third Reich. It is followed by a national holiday and the transfer of what remained of the state to powers which had no...
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English world rights (Seagull), France (P.O.L.), Poland (W.A.B.)
Year of Publication: 2013
Alexander Kluge, Gerhard RichterYear of Publication: 2013
Dispatches from Moments of Calm
The international artist and the most eminent chronicler of our time: 60 images by Gerhard Richter in dialogue with new texts by Alexander Kluge.
In the golden autumn of 2012...
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English world rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Imaginist Time Culture)
Year of Publication: 2013
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2013
Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor
»Alexander Kluge's work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep...
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English world rights (Seagull), Serbia (Kulturni Centar Novog Sada)
Year of Publication: 2011
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2011
Drilling through Hard Boards
Politics, says Kluge, is an exceptional aggregate state of everyday feelings. It’s everywhere. It sets private and public biographies in motion.
It was Max Weber who said...
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English world rights (Seagull), Arabic world rights (Sefsafa)
Year of Publication: 2010
Alexander Kluge, Gerhard RichterYear of Publication: 2010
December
»In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December,...
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English world rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Imaginist Time Culture), France (Diaphanes), Italy (La Grande Illusion), Turkey (Everest)
Year of Publication: 2009
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2009
The Labyrinth of Tender Force
There is no human quality that is older and more vital to survival than love. He who loves, it is said, loves with every fiber of his being. At the same time, as Bizet's Carmen proclaims, love is...
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English world rights (Seagull)
Year of Publication: 2008
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2008
Air Raid
Alexander Kluge’s account The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945 first appeared in 1977. Exactly twenty years later, it became one of the most important points of reference...
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English world rights (Seagull), France (Diaphanes), Italy (Meltemi), Netherlands (Cossee), Korea (Moonji), Poland (Ossolineum), Turkey (Ketebe), Israel (Pitom)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Machado)
Year of Publication: 2007
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2007
Cinema Stories
The 120 stories of this volume are literary essays told in Alexander Kluge's customary short and laconic style. At the same time, they also expose director Kluge's deep fondness for...
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Spanish rights Latin America (Caja negra), France (Diaphanes)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (L'Orma), Turkey (Lemis)
Year of Publication: 2003
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2003
The Devil's Blindspot
With a collection of 500 stories, Alexander Kluge picks up the thread of his Chronicle of Feelings, which had been published in 2000. Catchphrases such as Revolution, Holocaust, World War,...
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English world rights (New Directions), France (P.O.L.), Israel (Pitom)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Anagrama)
Year of Publication: 2000
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2000
Chronicle of Feelings
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Russia (NLO), France (P.O.L.)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (New Directions), Sweden (Brutus Östling)DISCOVER
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