
Alexander Kluge
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Alexander Kluge (14 February 1932 - 25 March 2026) was a German author, philosopher, academic and film director. Kluge became known in the 1960s and 1970s as one of the most influential representatives of the New German Cinema, which he helped to establish and develop in theory and practice.
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Germany in Autumn (1978)
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The Power of Emotion (1983)
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Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (2010)
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Japanclips (1988)
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Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
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The Big Mess (1971)
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E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher (1968)
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The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
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Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! (2001)
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In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (1974)
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News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (2008)
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Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod (2026)
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Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 (2026)
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Policeman's Lot (1965)
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Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg (2014)
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War and Peace (1982)
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Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet (1972)
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Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard (2000)
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Yesterday Girl (1967)
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The Officer as a Philosopher (2005)
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He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded (1996)
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The Indomitable Leni Peickert (1970)
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Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film (2017)
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Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973)
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Why Are You Crying, Antonio? (1988)
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N.Y. Ground Zero (2002)
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The Voice of the Playwright (1995)
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Der Deutschland-Komplex (2009)
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Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? (2015)
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Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (1967)
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Fassbinder's Funeral (2015)
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Strongman Ferdinand (1976)
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Rome, as Far Away as the Moon (1991)
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Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (1999)
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The Candidate (1980)
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Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome (1998)
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Under the Sign of Mars (1994)
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Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath (1989)
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Miscellaneous News (1986)
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The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 (2020)
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People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary (1977)
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Nachrichten von den Staufern (1977)
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Utopie der Oper (2026)
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"They killed our friends..." (2015)
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Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour (1983)
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Brutality in Stone (1961)
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The Patriotic Woman (1979)
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Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima (2014)
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The Day Is Nigh (1997)
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The Death of Seneca (1993)
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Happy Lamento (2018)
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Heiner Müller on Legal Questions (1990)
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My Rendezvous with Death (1995)
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A Woman Like a Volcano (2003)
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Heiner Müller in Time Flight (1996)
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“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” (1991)
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News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival (1966)
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At Work in the Ruins of Morality (—)
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I Owe the World a Dead Person (1994)
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100 Years of the German Rhine (1998)
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Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge (2012)
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Reason is a Balancing Animal (2017)
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Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge (1990)
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Sam Remembers Papa Kong (2006)
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Rennen (1961)
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Orphea (2021)
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In the Rock of Signs (2022)
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Protocol of a Revolution (1963)
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The Flexible Entrepreneur (2001)
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Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day (1995)
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On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses (1995)
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Solange die Notenblätter reichen (1994)
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Parsifal verlernen (2017)
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Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit (1988)
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The Last of the Mohicans (1993)
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Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais (2021)
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Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve (1964)
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Freedom for the Consonants! (2004)
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The Kiss of Death (2001)
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Zirkus, Richter’s Tango (2021)
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The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises (2018)
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Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) (2024)
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The Car is your Second Skin (2007)
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Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende (2017)
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"The Wind Will Clean It Off" (1996)
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Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution (2020)
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The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts (2007)
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The Moon Has Risen (2005)
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Love Makes You Perceptive! (2007)
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Happy Root From Non-Identity (2024)
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Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist (2024)
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The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman (1988)
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Soviet Patriots of 1941 (1991)
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My Love is Deeper than the Sea (1999)
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Attack on a Thick Glass Door (2024)
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From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards (2006)
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Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode? (—)
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Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"? (1994)
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Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds (1998)
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War is the End of all Plans (2007)
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Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand (2012)
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Rigor Was His Mark of Quality (2012)
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First the Music, then the Words (2003)
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Raubengel (2008)
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Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen (2011)
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"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right" (2007)
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"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion (1992)
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We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib (2018)
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Snapshots for my Fiancé (1999)
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Der Untergang der Titanic (2003)
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Das Phänomen der Oper (2007)
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"Love Pain Like Mute Fish" (2001)
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Dancing with Pictures (2017)
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The World is Not Bad, but Full (1994)
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The Poetic Power of Theory (2007)
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Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens (2019)
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The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing! (2001)
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Paper Tiger Television, New York (1989)
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The Pilot's Song (1988)
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Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer (2006)
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I Come Every Morning for Sex (1998)
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Every Frozen Structure has its Academy (1991)
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A Doctor From Haberstadt (1970)
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Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes (2007)
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A Tear for Every Drop of Blood (2004)
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Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth (2006)
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Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” (1995)
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The Deterrent (2007)
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Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday (1989)
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August 1914 (2000)
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Man is the Soft Target (2008)
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Primitive Diversity (2025)
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The Safety of the President (2007)
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Sense below the Sense (2008)
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Camp Money (1995)
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Clinton's Chief Economist (—)
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Anti-Opera (1993)
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Frederick of Prussia (1992)
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The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot (1997)
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Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish (1993)
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Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie (2008)
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The Sahara Became Swampland (2000)
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The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome (1988)
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Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (1973)
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Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by (1990)
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The Bridge Crosser (2007)
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Die Rache der betrogenen Braut (1994)
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He Who Hopes, Dies Singing (1999)
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Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" (2008)
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"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!" (1998)
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Rennfahrer (1961)
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High on Work (1997)
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As a Military Judge in November 1918 (2005)
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Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management (1996)
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Beginnings of Film Art (2024)
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Storm Over Egypt (2006)
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Flexible Memory (2006)
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Cosmic Miniatures (2024)
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I Lived for my Art (2007)
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Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt (2008)
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Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) (2022)
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Only Cans Were Saved (2003)
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The Greatest Treasure of Evolution (2006)
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The Mute Girl of Portici (1998)
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Headless Man (2008)
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Postheroic Management (1999)
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Amok. Das Ende der Einfühlung (—)
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Love as Passion (1995)
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Nur Gott hat zugesehen (2002)
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Darwin and the Tank (1990)
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Heterotopie der Oper (2026)
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Engine Cough (1996)
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A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life (2002)
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The most beautiful treasure of evolution (—)
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"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes" (1992)
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Multiple Images for Five Projectors (2007)
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True Love on the Front (2001)
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Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele (—)
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Omnivore Democracy (1995)
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Borderline Cases of Damage Control (2006)
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Rette sich, wer kann (2003)
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Biermann-Film (1983)
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Thinking for Oneself (2005)
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Der Gärtner von Nürnberg (2017)
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The Trickiness of Peace Treaties (2006)
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Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! (2007)
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The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative (2008)
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Thema Amore (1961)
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Planetary Man (2024)
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Blue Hour Tango Time (1988)
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An Opera That Sparked a Revolution (2024)
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On Laughing and Walking Upright (2006)
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"With all the Wealth of my Needs" (1999)
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Spinoza und die Modi Gottes (—)
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Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music (1990)
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Sad News (2006)
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Plowshare of Evil (1993)
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Desire that Rules the World (1998)
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La Habanera (2006)
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The Execution of an Elephant (2000)
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La Paloma (2006)
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Der schwedische Mozart (1998)
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Das gab’s nur einmal (2006)
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The Magical World of Evolution (2007)
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Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld (2006)
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Trump State Visit (2020)
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Wild Night with Moon (1990)
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Serpentine Gallery Program (2006)
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Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies (1996)
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Megastars of the Art of Love (2007)
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What Does "Good Will" Mean? (2007)
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Women as Warriors (2005)
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"80,000 Operas!" (1994)
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An Experiment in Love (1998)
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Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft (1999)
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The Deadly Triangle (2006)
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Darklings Sing Bass (2002)
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Attention: Total Loss! (2001)
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Light Veins (2014)
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Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt (1998)
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Mind, Power, Castration (1993)
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Chicago in Time Lapse (1996)
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Zoo Animals in War (1995)
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Dance on the Volcano (2001)
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Lied der Medea (2023)
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Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt (2019)
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The Black Market of Love (2005)
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The Magic of the Darkened Soul (2007)
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Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt (2018)
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The Opera Doctor (2007)
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What is War? (2002)
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Madame Butterfly Waits (1988)
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Früchte des Vertrauens (2009)
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For Vertov (1998)
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Changing Time (Quickly) (1988)
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String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera (2024)
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"Surplus Value" & its Images (2005)
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16 Minute-films (2006)
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"The Burning Giraffe" (2007)
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Lehrer im Wandel (1963)
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Evolution in the Universe (2008)
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The Death of Lucretia (1988)
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Zirkus im Krieg (2018)
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A Poker Game (1966)
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Werewolves Playoffs (2020)
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Soprano versus Bass (1992)
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Happy Easter (1998)
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Neonröhren des Himmels (1998)
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The Belshazzar Project (1999)
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Die neun Unzertrennlichen (1994)
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Antiques of Advertising (1988)
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The Siamese Hands (2008)
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Fifi (2008)
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Theorie der Erzählung (2013)
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Love in a spacesuit (—)
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The Deluge (1999)
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