Heiner Müller
Birthday: 1929-01-09
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Biography: Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.
Movies
Unter Deutschen
Documentary filmmaker Troller criss-crosses post-reunified “Transgermania” for a year, probing Germa...
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Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller
This film not only illuminates Heiner Müller's life and works, it is more about questioning the "Sph...
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Keine Hand wäscht die Andere
On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berl...
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At Work in the Ruins of Morality
Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron ...
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Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At th...
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Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwri...
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“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heine...
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Mind, Power, Castration
Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversat...
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Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to ...
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Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of ...
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Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. ...
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Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (...
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Frederick of Prussia
Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical...
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The Death of Seneca
Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have...
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Under the Sign of Mars
This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers...
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Plowshare of Evil
Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to c...
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Anti-Opera
Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century...
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The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Uni...
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The Last of the Mohicans
A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of...
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The World is Not Bad, but Full
The central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead an...
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The Voice of the Playwright
One of Müllers's vocal cords was paralyzed as a result of a life-saving radical operation (1995). At...
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On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
The conversation begins on the topic of Müller’s plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has pr...
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I Owe the World a Dead Person
In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. St...
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Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing ...
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He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an an...
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Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
The discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book "Post-hero...
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Heiner Müller in Time Flight
Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare'...
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Omnivore Democracy
In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of...
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My Rendezvous with Death
The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern...
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Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an exa...
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Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
From August 1989 to March 1990, Heiner Müller and the Deutsches Theater ensemble develop “Hamlet/Mas...
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Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt t...
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"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK...
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