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Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge was a German author, film director, and public intellectual.

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Known for: Pioneering German author and film director known for his influential works in literature and cinema.
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About Alexander Kluge

After studies with Theodor W. Adorno in Frankfurt, he worked as an assistant to Fritz Lang for The Tiger of Eschnapur. He directed his first film, Brutality in Stone, in 1960, a short montage dealing with the Nazi era. He became instrumental in New German Cinema, establishing an institute for film at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm. In 1987 Kluge founded the television production company DCTP, producing for private television. As an author, he focused on short stories. His major works of social criticism include Öffentlichkeit und Erfahrung, translated as Public Sphere and Experience, co-written with Oskar Negt and first published in 1972. He was a professor in Frankfurt from 1973. Kluge received major literary awards including the Georg Büchner Prize and the Grimme-Preis for his lifetime achievement in television.

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