Melanż historii, polityki i liryzmu – przyczynek do analizy filmu „Patriotka” Alexandra Klugego
Melange of History, Politics and Lyricism – a Contribution to the Analysis of Alexander Kluge’s “Patriot”

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the film “Patriot” (“Die Patriotin”, 1979), made by the German director Alexander Kluge, one of the signatories of the manifesto from Oberhausen, probably the most famous representative of that generation. Created partly on the basis of the found footage method, the work, which is a compilation of the narrative and documentary form, offers an insight into Kluge’s essayistic strategy, and in a broader sense it is an example of the exploration of forms of expression that can turn into a vehicle of hard-to-communicate historical content on the grounds of the New German Cinema, especially with regard to the dark German history, full of imperial gestures. The author assumes that the narrative of “Patriot” is spread between three contexts – history, politics and lyricism, which are not only reference points in the process of interpretation, but also interpenetrating elements generating meaning.

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