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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.

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Unter Deutschen

1995 Documentary

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2009

This film not only illuminates Heiner Müller's life and works, it is more about questioning the "Sph...

Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

2009 Documentary TV Movie

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1988

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berl...

Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

1988 Drama TV Movie

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Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron ...

At Work in the Ruins of Morality

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1989

This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to ...

Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

1989

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1989

In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of ...

Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

1989

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1990

In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. ...

Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

1990

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1990

"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (...

Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

1990

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1991

Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwri...

Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

1991

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1991

At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At th...

Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

1991

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1991

In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heine...

“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

1991

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1992

Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical...

Frederick of Prussia

1992

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1993

Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversat...

Mind, Power, Castration

1993

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1993

A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of...

The Last of the Mohicans

1993

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1993

Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to c...

Plowshare of Evil

1993

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1993

Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have...

The Death of Seneca

1993

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1993

Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century...

Anti-Opera

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1994

This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers...

Under the Sign of Mars

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1994

In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. St...

I Owe the World a Dead Person

1994

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1994

The central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead an...

The World is Not Bad, but Full

1994

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