FFIILLMM CCUULLTTUURREE IN TRANSITION Alexander Kluge Raw Materials for the Imagination EDITED BY TARA FORREST Amsterdam University Press AlexanderKluge Alexander Kluge Raw Materials for the Imagination Edited by Tara Forrest Frontcoverillustration:AlexanderKluge.Photo:ReginaSchmeken Backcoverillustration:ArtistsundertheBigTop:Perplexed() Coverdesign:KokKorpershoek,Amsterdam Lay-out:japes,Amsterdam isbn (paperback) isbn (hardcover) e-isbn  nur  ©T.Forrest/AmsterdamUniversityPress, Allrightsreserved.Withoutlimitingtherightsundercopyrightreservedabove, nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced,storedinorintroducedintoaretrieval system,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans(electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise)withoutthewrittenpermissionofboth thecopyrightownerandtheauthorofthebook. Everyefforthasbeenmadetoobtainpermissiontouseallcopyrightedillustra- tionsreproducedinthisbook.Nonetheless,whosoeverbelievestohaverights tothismaterialisadvisedtocontactthepublisher. ForAlexanderKluge …andinmemoryofMiriamHansen Table of Contents Introduction Editor’sIntroduction  TaraForrest The StubbornPersistence ofAlexanderKluge  ThomasElsaesser Film, Politics and the Public Sphere OnFilmand the Public Sphere  AlexanderKluge Cooperative AuteurCinemaand Oppositional Public Sphere: Alexander Kluge’sContribution toGI A  MiriamHansen ‘What isDifferentisGood’:Women and Femininity inthe Films ofAlexanderKluge  HeideSchlüpmann Rethinking History InSearch ofGermany: Alexander Kluge’sT P  AntonKaes Alexander Kluge andGerman History: ‘The Air Raidon Halberstadton8.4.1945’  DavidRoberts The Air RaidonHalberstadt,8 April 1945 (extract)  AlexanderKluge Realism as Protest ConstructionSite Film: Kluge’sIdeaofRealismand HisShort Films  EikeFriedrichWenzel 8 AlexanderKluge The Sharpest Ideology: ThatRealityAppealstoitsRealistic Character  AlexanderKluge Debate on the Documentary Film:ConversationwithKlaus Eder,1980  AlexanderKlugeandKlausEder Opera as a ‘Power Plant of Emotion’ Undoing Act5: History, Bodiesand Operatic Remainsin T P E  CarylFlinn ‘FeelingsCan Move Mountains…’:AnInterviewwithAlexander Kluge on the Film TP  F  FlorianHopf Alexander Kluge’sPhantomofthe Opera  GertrudKoch Storytelling and Politics AnAnalytic Storytellerinthe Course ofTime  AndreasHuyssen The Political asIntensityofEveryday Feelings  AlexanderKluge Atthe 2003 InternationalSecurity Conference  AlexanderKluge Television and Counter-Public Spheres Raw Materialsfor the Imagination:Kluge’s Work for Television  TaraForrest Television and Obstinacy  ChristianSchulte Reframing Islam in Television:Alexander Kluge’sInterviewson IslamandTerrorism since 9/11  TimGrünewald Inthe Real Time ofFeelings:InterviewwithAlexanderKluge  AstridDeuber-MankowskyandGiacoSchiesser TableofContents 9 Television Interviews Character Armourand Mobile Warfare  AlexanderKlugeandHeinerMüller JeffMills:GodfatherofTechno  AlexanderKlugeandJeffMills TsunamiofEmotion:OnPuccini’sTosca  AlexanderKlugeandJosephVogl Early Cinema/Recent Work Reinventing the Nickelodeon: Noteson Kluge and Early Cinema  MiriamHansen ‘All ThingsAre Enchanted Human Beings’:Remarks on Alexander Kluge’sN I A  ChristianSchulte SelectedBibliographyofEnglish-Language Texts  Acknowledgments  NotesonContributors  Index 