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Adorno characterized Critical Theory as a message in a bottle in 1940 when the exiled Frankfurt School's sphere of influence was an ocean away from the catastrophes of fascism it sought to fight. Turning Adorno’s metaphor on its head some six decades later, Kluge likens his creative method in the interview with Oskar Negt that opens the second volume of the Kluge-Jahrbuch to echoes of light refracted through a bottle: “I can also see something by looking through shards of glass,” he explains. Deploying this turn of phrase as its point of departure, this issue of the Jahrbuch devotes its attention first to Kluge’s theory work written with Negt, its roots in and adaptation of the Frankfurt School tradition as well as its indebtedness to other schools of thought. In the remainder of the volume, scholars working in five different disciplines across the humanities query Kluge’s ways of seeing in film, television and literature.

Thomas Combrink ist Literaturwissenschaftler und Mitarbeiter von Alexander Kluge.

Prof. Dr. Richard Langston lehrt German Studies an der University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Dr. Gunther Martens ist Forschungsprofessor für deutsche Literaturwissenschaft am Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur der Universität Gent, Belgien.

Vincent Pauval hat über Alexander Kluge promoviert und war dann langjährig für Alexander Kluge, Kairos-Film und DCTP tätig. Er ist Mitherausgeber mehrerer Sammelbände zu Kluges Werk.

Dr. Christian Schulte ist Professor für Theater- und Medienkulturen der Neuzeit am Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft (tfm) der Universität Wien.