Crossing the Bridge with Alexander and Alexandra Kluge

November 11, 2026November 11, 2026 Stuart Mitchner Crossing the Bridge with Alexander and Alexandra Kluge By Stuart Mitchner I worked very often with my sister, an actress, and she is always present in my mind. Therefore I am not alone. —Alexander Kluge (1932-2026) Instead of attending last week’s German Department celebration of the author, film director, and teacher Alexander Kluge, who died on March 25, I spent the morning immersed in his first feature, Yesterday Girl (1966). I’d been checking for information about the film online and suddenly there was the complete work on my iMac, where I watched it straight through, face to face, unable to “put it down,” unaware that the central character I found so compelling, so sympathetic, was played by the director’s sister, who died at the age of 80 on June 11, 2017. Alexander’s Alexandra “My sister knew this young girl,” Kluge recalls in a February 20, 2012 Notebook interview.

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