Alexandra Kluge

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Alexandra Karen Kluge (born April 2, 1937 in Halberstadt ; † June 11, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and actress . She gained fame through working with her brother Alexander Kluge , who used her in several of his films.

Life

Education and successful film debut

Alexandra Kluge was born in 1937 as the daughter of the doctor Ernst Kluge and his wife Alice (birth name: Hausdorf). Filmmaker Alexander Kluge is her older brother. In 1945 the family escaped the bombing of Halberstadt by Allied planes, in which the parents' house was completely destroyed. After the parents separated, her brother moved with his mother to Berlin-Charlottenburg , while Kluge attended school in the GDR . She studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin , then in Frankfurt am Main and Munich, and received her doctorate on anorexia nervosa (1969). Kluge later worked as an assistant doctor in Berlin and as a hospital doctor in Frankfurt am Main. From 1991 to 2002 she worked as an assistant doctor in Prof. Rühl's oncological practice in Berlin. Since 2002 she has been a freelancer for the cultural programs of Kairos-Film at dctp .

Kluge came into contact with the film largely through her brother. She worked for him as an assistant director and took part in the script for his short documentary Teacher in Change (1962/63). However, she only became known to a wide audience in 1966 when she took on the lead role in Farewell to Yesterday , her brother's first feature film. In the drama she can be seen as the young Anita G., daughter of Jewish concentration camp survivors; after her escape from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany, the nurse gets on the wrong track. Farewell to Yesterday celebrated its premiere in 1966 at the Venice Film Festival , where the film received multiple awards. Kluge invented her own texts and played scenes with spontaneous ideas, whereupon her brother praised her as "my co-author". After the Premio Cinema Nuova in Venice for best actress and the Rosa d'Oro of the film journalists (for the "most sympathetic personality of the 17th film art show in Venice"), Kluge received the Federal Film Prize for best actress and the Bambi media prize a year later .

Withdrawal from acting

Although the German critic Reinhard Baumgart in the Süddeutsche Zeitung compared the cooperation of the Kluge siblings with that of Jean-Pierre Léaud and François Truffaut , Alexandra Kluge did not continue her film career after her successful screen debut. The reason she gave was that she “did not want to be messed up by the big apparatus”. Kluge was then only occasionally involved in her brother's films as an actress, speaker or screenwriter. In 2010 the critic Andreas Platthaus ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ) wrote : “One can only regret that this fascinating woman, who had what it takes to be a German Jeanne Moreau , hardly made any films afterwards and instead pursued her career as a doctor . "

At the beginning of the 1970s, Alexander Kluge entrusted his sister with the role of housewife and mother Roswitha Bronski in the casual job of a slave (1973) who tries to get involved in social policy with the help of an abortion practice. According to the contemporary review by Wilfried Wiegand (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Alexandra Kluge radiates “just a broken intellectuality” in the film, after “an indestructible naivety” was written on her face in the hit film Farewell to Yesterday . The main character's naivete only appears to be shown, her Roswitha B. looks “a bit stupid”, which speaks against the actual intention of Alexander Kluge. According to Die Zeit, the casual work of a slave deals with the face of his leading actress: “When Alexandra Kluge is in the picture, she provokes affection, approval and spontaneous sympathy, especially if she does everything wrong. A very open, defenseless face, vulnerable and completely exposed and then determined and sure again, with eyes that are perplexed and fearful and devoted to the teachings of her husband or their casual work and yet can radiate an unshakable inner calm. "

Kluge's last role was in the essay film The Power of Emotions (1983).

Private life

Alexandra Kluge married Bion Steinborn in 1968, who was the editor of the film magazine Filmfaust in the 1980s . He played a slave girl's husband in casual work . In 1968 she became the mother of a son, Andro Steinborn .

She was close friends with the Hungarian literary scholar Péter Szondi (1929–1971), whom she met in April 1963 through Theodor Adorno .

Alexandra Kluge died in Berlin in June 2017 at the age of 80. She was buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin.

documentation

A film documentary about Alexandra Kluge with the title "I freeze also in summer" and the subtitle: "The two lives of Alexandra Kluge" was made by the documentary filmmaker Hanna Laura Klar and shown in the German Film Museum.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actress Alexandra Kluge died , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, July 13, 2017, accessed on July 13, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Borszik, Oliver: Interpretation of two selected texts by Alexander Kluge: "An attempt to love" and "Massensterben in Venice" . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-68179-7 , p. 3.
  3. ↑ Alexander Kluge's biography at filmportal.de (accessed April 2, 2012).
  4. ↑ a b c d Alexandra Kluge . In: International Biographical Archive 27/1974 of June 24, 1974.
  5. ↑ a b Praise in Venice . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1966, pp. 133 ( online ).
  6. ↑ a b Ah, Papili . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1967, p. 86 ( online ).
  7. ↑ "I never got stage fright". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 29, 1966, p. 70.
  8. ↑ Platthaus, Andreas: Moments of German Films (V): "Farewell to Yesterday" in the FAZ film edition . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 7, 2010, No. 9, p. 28.
  9. ^ Schober, Siegfried: Farewell to Today . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1973, pp. 145 ( online ).
  10. ^ Wiegand, Wilfried: Longing for yesterday . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 1, 1974, p. 24.
  11. ↑ Alexander Kluge's new beginning . In: Die Zeit , January 4, 1974, No. 2.
  12. ↑ Unhinge the world , taz.de of March 7, 2013, accessed on July 14, 2017.
  13. ↑ cf. Entry in the catalog of the German National Library DNB 482610956 . She published her medical dissertation under the name "A Karen Steinborn".
  14. ↑ Kalberer, Guido: Thinker at eye level with the tragic . In: Tages-Anzeiger , January 6, 2005, p. 41.
  15. ↑ A film star, a doctor , In: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 19, 2018, p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Kluge, Alexandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kluge, Alexandra Karen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2017
Place of death Berlin