In 1968, he won the Golden Lion in Venice with "The Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed," and in 1982, he received a special award from the festival for his entire cinematic oeuvre.
A significant part of his literary work consists of short stories collected in books such as "The Devil's Blind Spot," of which a selection has been published in Spanish by Anagrama.
Kluge, alongside Volker Schlöndorf and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, was among the directors who participated in the film "Germany in Autumn" (1978), which confronts the terrorist activities of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in 1977.
Born in 1932 in Halberstadt (eastern Germany), Kluge made his debut as a writer in 1962 with "Lebensläufe" (Life Stories), a series of fictitious biographies that traverse German history around the turning point of 1945.
In the same year, Kluge was one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto, considered the founding document of the New German Cinema.
"We live in a strangely changing world," he said a few weeks ago in a dialogue with his recently deceased friend, Jürgen Habermas.
"Some even speak of a murky enlightenment that has emerged around Silicon Valley," he added.
His first feature film, "Yesterday Girl," won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966 and his literary work earned him the Georg Büchner Prize in 2003, the most prestigious award in the German language for a writer's complete works.
In 1968, he won the Golden Lion in Venice with "The Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed," and in 1982, he received a special award from the festival for his entire cinematic oeuvre.
A significant part of his literary work consists of short stories collected in books such as "The Devil's Blind Spot," of which a selection has been published in Spanish by Anagrama.
Kluge, alongside Volker Schlöndorf and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, was among the directors who participated in the film "Germany in Autumn" (1978), which confronts the terrorist activities of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in 1977.
Born in 1932 in Halberstadt (eastern Germany), Kluge made his debut as a writer in 1962 with "Lebensläufe" (Life Stories), a series of fictitious biographies that traverse German history around the turning point of 1945.
In the same year, Kluge was one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto, considered the founding document of the New German Cinema.
"We live in a strangely changing world," he said a few weeks ago in a dialogue with his recently deceased friend, Jürgen Habermas.
"Some even speak of a murky enlightenment that has emerged around Silicon Valley," he added.