Air Raid
Der Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April 1945
(Sprache: Englisch)
Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late-20th century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Martin Chalmers is a Berlin-based translator from Glasgow....
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Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late-20th century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Martin Chalmers is a Berlin-based translator from Glasgow. He has translated some of the best-known German-language writers, including Herta Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
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On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to cloud cover. As it was too late to turn back, the assembled ordnance of more than two hundred bombers was diverted to nearby Halberstadt. A middle-sized cathedral town of no particular industrial or strategic importance, Halberstadt was almost totally destroyed, and a then-thirteen-year-old Alexander Kluge watched his town burn to the ground. Translated by Martin Chalmers, Klugeâ¿¿s Air Raid is a touchstone event in German literature of the post-war era. Incorporating photographs, diagrams, and drawings, Kluge captures the overwhelming rapidity and totality of the organized destruction of his town from numerous perspectives, bringing to life both the strategy from above and the futility of the response on the ground. Originally published in German in 1977, this exquisite report, fragmentary and unfinished, is one of Klugeâ¿¿s most personal works and one of the best examples of his literary technique.  Now available for the first time in English, Air Raid appears with additional new stories by the author and features an appreciation of the work by W.G. Sebald.  \u201cMore than a few of Klugeâ¿¿s many books are essential, brilliant achievements. None are without great interest.\u201d—Susan Sontag
Autoren-Porträt von Alexander Kluge, Martin Chalmers
Alexander Kluge, geboren 1932 in Halberstadt, studierte in Marburg und Frankfurt/Main Rechtswissenschaften, Geschichte und Kirchenmusik. Nach seiner Zulassung als Rechtsanwalt absolvierte er ein Volontariat bei dem Filmregisseur Fritz Lang und betätigte sich mit Erfolg als Filmemacher und literarischer Autor. Er erhielt zahlreiche Preise. So wurde Alexander Kluge 2003 der "Georg-Büchner-Preis" verliehen und 2014 der "Heine-Preis" der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. "... Als wichtiger Vertreter der kritischen Theorie knüpft er an das poetische, publizistische und politische Schaffen Heinrich Heines an", so die Jury.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Alexander Kluge , Martin Chalmers
- 2014, 138 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 20,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Martin Chalmers
- Verlag: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN-10: 0857420798
- ISBN-13: 9780857420794
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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"More than a few of Alexander Kluge's many books are essential, brilliant achievements. None are without great interest."-Susan Sontag "Alexander Kluge's genius is for exposing those little interruptions, those moments that escape totalizing systems, whether National Socialist or Stalinist." -Ben Lerner, Artforum"
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