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Alexander Kluge (born 1932) is a German filmmaker, author, television producer, theorist, and digital entrepreneur. Since 1960, he has made fourteen feature films and twenty short films and has written more than thirty books - including three with Marxist philosopher Oskar Negt. His television production company has released more than 3,000 features, in which Kluge converses with real or fictional experts or creates thematic montages. He also maintains a website on which he reassembles segments from his film and television work. To call Kluge "prolific" would be an understatement. This is the first English-language monograph devoted to the full scope of Kluge´s work, from his appearance on the cultural scene in the 1960s to his contributions to New German Cinema in the 1970s and early 1980s to his recent collaborations with such artists as Gerhard Richter.

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Philipp Ekardt is affiliated with University of London´s School of Advanced Study/The Warburg Institute. An authority on Walter Benjamin and Alexander Kluge, he is a former Editor-in Chief of Texte zur Kunst, his work has appeared in such journals as October and Poetica and in exhibition catalogs for Tate St. Ives, Mumok Vienna, Museum Ludwig Cologne, and Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt.

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