Movies

He is a music pirate, that is, he makes illegal recordings of underground music groups and sells them on the streets of New York. Cyd is the call...

Opera stars face daunting competitive pressure. It's thus not unusual for some of the best among them to seek to improve their performance by...

A new version of Nipp and Tuck (Del Ruth / Sennett, 1923)

A short by Alexander Kluge.

In antiquity, a mariner or hunter could identify 6000 stars with his naked eye. Modern astrophysics now researches trillions of stars, galaxies and...

In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...

Originally the marching song "The Flag on High," which had been part of Germany's national anthem, had an entirely different text. The song actually...

The Serpentine Gallery Program is a treasure trove of TV films. "He who hopes, dies singing" and other true stories.

A short by Alexander Kluge.

There is public debate as to whether we should return to the old German orthography established by the Duden dictionary in 1991, or insist on...

An opera film by Alexander Kluge

Abbé Prévost wrote the most modern novel of the 18th century, "Manon Lescaut". A new currency appeared beside money, faith and reason:...

The British college tutor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly discusses the wartime deeds of fearless women. She also characterizes the male fantasies of...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

The "Berliner Ensemble" is a theater company closely connected to names like Bert Brecht, Heiner Müller and Claus Peymann. Hary Balzke is the...

Fred Peickert lost his job in one of the new eastern German states. Ever since, he's been in a holding pattern, waiting for vocational...

Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen...

A short about the German composer and royal bandmaster Joseph Martin Kraus, often nicknamed ‘the Swedish Mozart’. A young man is seen...

All the operas put together (and there are a total of 80,000 in the history of opera) form one single score. They accompany the past 400 years of...