Reclaiming “geballte linke Energie”: War in Alexander Kluge’s Docufiction <i>Heidegger auf der Krim</i>
Journal: Seminar A Journal of Germanic Studies
Year: 2014

In his docufiction Heidegger auf der Krim, the German author, director and television producer Alexander Kluge rekindles the polemical debate between two towering figures of German philosophy (Heidegger and Adorno). The nucleus of the story emerges in a discussion with Heiner Müller on the role of the intellectual faced with war and dictatorship; but the text is also a direct reaction to the discussions surrounding the Wehrmachtausstellung (1995), which hinged on the involvement of the regular A