»Wer ein Wort des Trostes spricht, ist ein Verräter« 48 Geschichten für Fritz Bauer

Dealing with the legacy of the Third Reich plays an important role in Alexander Kluge’s writing. The extermination of the Jews forms a key centre in his work. As does the difficulty of capturing the Holocaust with the means of art. As Adorno noted, the classical literary forms are not capable of expressing and to put into words, what happened in Auschwitz.