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Schramme am Himmel
Nachrichten vom Helden Hagen
Jonathan Meese/Alexander Kluge

344 pp.

with numerous colour illustrations

thread-sewn hardcover



Leipzig January, 2022
ISBN: 9783959055642
Edition Number: 1

Width: 9.5 cm
Length: 14.5 cm

Language(s): German

Author
Jonathan Meese, Alexander Kluge

Designer
Wolfgang Schwärzler

For several years, Jonathan Meese and Alexander Kluge were preoccupied with Hagen von Tronje, the fabled character from The Song of the Nibelungs. They were both mesmerized by this mysterious figure, whom Jonathan Meese renamed ”Hagen von Troja“ (Hagen of Troy) one day. The poetic excavations of the Hagen principle stretch from antiquity to Silicon Valley and from Middle High German folktales to Jan Philipp Reemtsma’s book Warum Hagen Jung­ Ortlieb erschlug: Unzeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod by way of Fritz Lang’s film recordings.

Schramme am Himmel is an artistic collaboration between Alexander Kluge and Jonathan Meese, in which texts and images provide mutual inspiration and drive each other on.

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