1. Alexander Kluge · Arrival at the Endpoint ‘Galloping Daybreak’ Death in Confusion The Weapon of Disregard The Way to the West The Most Dangerous Weapon of the Second World War     En Route Further Westwards What is a Born Fighter? No Securing of Property at the Sudden Dawn of a New Age The Ways of Money A Future Fortune At Least for a Glance On Imagined Roads Undertaking in the Manner of a ‘Scouting Game’, Simply Because There Was Petrol Available A Practice Fight out of Recklessness Aftershocks of Wartime Film Scene in the Park End of an Epoch Processing the Spoils Overcome by the Front One Disaster among Millions No Enemy Was Needed to End the War A Fatal Encounter between Two Jurisdictions An Anti-Bolshevik Prague for One Day Much That Had Been Left Unfinished Was Still Meant to Be Taken Care of The Last Days of ‘Eternal France’ A Provisional Life The Trains East of the Brenner Pass Were Running at Full Tilt  Three Russian Offensives in the Eastern Alps and up the Danube ‘But this one is called Ister. It dwells in beauty’ The End of Hostility, Experience at the Vienna Burgtheater  A Hotel in No Man’s Land The ‘Black Hand’ of 1914 Would Not Have a Chance against the President of the USA Outrageous Decisions in So Short a Time More Waste than ever Before  Deadline Pressure for the Führer Venus Plus Mars in Square Relation to Saturn: The Constellation of Death The Threshold for Violent Killing in a Stone Age Tribe ‘Everyone Approved of the Killing’ How Small a Number of Military Predictions Survived a Quarter-Centry Arrival at the Endpoint On Side Paths He Wished He Could Come Home ‘Guilt, the Oldest Marble’ The Intertwinement of the Spiritual World with the Real A Ghostly Celestial Phenomenon over the Brocken Heiner Müller: The Iron Cross The Last Meteorologist of Pillau  2. Reinhard Jirgl War Births Afterpiece. Lucky Shadow 3. Alexander Kluge · in a Different Country  The Large-Scale Celestial Events, Neutral towards the Turbulently Changing Fronts on the Ground Judgement at Dawn Metaphor of a Refugee Who Ended up in the Neutral Country Will You Be Emigrating in the Foreseeable Future? A Current Advertisement for Life Insurance Newspaper Report on a Tragic Detail  Transfer of Migrant Workers to Their Home Countries through Switzerland A Military Hospital Crosses the Border with Heavily Wounded Patients Free Time The Weekly Film Schedule at Zurich Cinemas The Explosive Device in the Gotthard Tunnel On the ‘Black List’ Background Conversation in 1983 Laconic Reply A Straggler The Grave of Stefan Man 4. Reinhard Jirgl The Great March The Smile of a Family Man 5. Alexander Kluge · In the Reich Capital Division of the City into Combat Sectors How I Lost My Friend As the Last Poet in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda Skirmishes on the Eve of 30 April at Heerstrasse City Train Station An Unreal Final Connection between 1936 and April 1945 Commemoration of Dead Words Reading Time As a Faithful Eyewitness The Last and Only Action by the New Reich Chancellor in Matters of Foreign Policy Last Connection Everything Went Too Quickly to Process the New Realities Inwardly In the Basements of the Charité Island of Civilization Normally One Pays for Erotic Services; Here One Pays for Lives to Be Saved Education Struggle to the Last He Had Only Got Three of His Students Through to Spandau-West Thirst in the Wasteland News across the International Date Line 6. Reinhard Jirgl A Proletarian Clytemnestra 7. Alexander Kluge ·In a Small Town In a Small Town Digging for the Dead Loot with No Practical Value Domeyer Garden Centre at Burchardi Green Assigned to Removal Work: From the Large Space to Simple Cultivation Re-enacting Conquest Life in the Rhythm of Haricuts Haircut for the New Times Bartering Early Commercial Flowering, Blown away a Moment Later Gitti and the Captain Wandered along the Shore, holding Hands (‘Several heavens walked beside them’) Transatlantic Door Tufts of Grass View of the Brocken  A Day with a Surprise  8. Reinhard Jirgl Uncanny Bridge-Building Early Shift. Scene for an Imaginary Front Theatre. 9. Alexander Kluge · On the Globe Immense Redistribution of Military Forces Halfway around the Globe A Stock-Market Leap The System of Certificates Circumnavigation of the Early by Ship Disappointing Arrival in East Asia Robinsonad in the Ice Neutral Ship Fortunate Landing Coup in Argentina In the Seven-Hill City of San Francisco The Genesis of the Veto The Patriot of Lviv ‘What To Do?’ ‘All wheels stand still if your strong arm wills it’ On Folding Beds With Embers That Burn for Over 40 Years In the Eye of the Secret Service  A Labour Leader at the Hotel Palace A Senior Comrade Pilloried by the New Generation  10. Reinhard Jirgl After Midnight The Oldest

Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Wieland Hoban writes regularly for Muzik and Ästhetik and Fragmen, and the book series New Music & Aesthetics in the 21st  Century. He has translated several works from German, including those by Theodor W. Adorno and Sibylle Lewitscharoff.