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Kluge is also one of the major German fiction writers of the late-20th century and an important social critic. His fictional works, which tend toward the short story form, are significant for their formal experimentation and insistently critical thematics.
Enzensberger wrote: ‘Of Germany’s recognised writers, Alexander Kluge is the least known’. Perhaps the main reason for this neglect is that Kluge’s whole work is a protest against the contemporary division of labour.
Alexander Kluge is one of the leading intellectual voices in Germany today. Described, as a young man, as “Adorno’s favorite son” (O. Negt), over the past half century Kluge has created a vast body of work that can be regarded as a continuation, in word and image, of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School.
In a review of Kluge's volume of stories Neue Geschichten (1977) Hans Magnus Enzensberger wrote: ‘Of Germany's recognised writers, Alexander Kluge is the least known'. Perhaps the main reason for this neglect is that Kluge's whole work is a protest against the contemporary division of labour.
Sep 7, 2022 · A third answer emerges in the work of the German writer, director, TV producer and public intellectual Alexander Kluge. Now 90, Kluge was born in Halberstadt, the Carolingian town in the Harz that was levelled by Allied bombers during the last month of the Second World War.
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Nov 21, 2014 · In 1977, in a review for Der Spiegel of a short-story collection by Alexander Kluge, the poet and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger wrote: “Among well-known German authors Kluge is the...
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The following entry presents an overview of Kluge's short fiction career through 1998. Kluge is known as one of the most experimental and controversial writers and filmmakers in Germany.
