FORA.tv Speaker - Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge, born 1932 in Halberstadt, is a filmmaker, TV producer and author. He was legal advisor at the Frankfurter Institute für Sozialforschung and close trustee of Theodor W. Adorno. Siding 25 other filmmakers he published the Oberhausener Manifest in 1962; Movies like "Abschied von Gestern" and "Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos" are considered to be decisive milestones for the new German film and the German author's cinema of the 80s.

With the establishment of "dtcp" 1987 Kluge created a platform for independent programs in private German television. His latest project is www.dctp.tv, the Web-TV network from dctp. His most recent publication is Das Labyrinth der zärtlichen Kraft, Suhrkamp 2009.