Theorie der Erzählung (theory of narration, or narratology) – five lectures on aestetics, held by Alexander Kluge in Summer 2012 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. Including some short films by Kluge (Minutenfilme) and film excerpts (Abschied von gestern, 1966). With Michael Haneke, Hans-Magnus Enzensberger, Helge Schneider, and others (archive footage). Lecture 1: The rumbling of the swallowed world. The lives and the real Lecture 2: The instruments for text and film. Poetics themselves Lecture 3: Masses of reality, waiting for narration Lecture 4: The irrefutability of narration