Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

In recent years Kluge received the triennial Adorno prize of 2009. Some new material was publiAlexander Kluged in each edition. Awards
His awards include the Italian Literature Prize Isola d'Elba (1967) and almost every major German-language literary prize including the Heinrich von Kleist Prize (1985) the Heinrich-Böll-Preis (1993) and the Schiller Memorial Prize (2001).

Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) is a German author and film director. Not to be confused with Alexandra Kluge his sister and a film actress.