Heiner Müller

Documentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88.

The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with ...

The discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book “Post-heroic Management: A Manual” by Dirk ...

Müller describes Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Golding’s translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare’s sources, as an ...

A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords “breathing” and “smoking” with an anecdote that ...

The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller’s personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his ...

The conversation begins on the topic of Müller’s plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has promised to write a libretto for Boulez, and ...

Documentary filmmaker Troller criss-crosses post-reunified “Transgermania” for a year, probing German identity through festivals (Carnival, ...

One of Müllers’s vocal cords was paralyzed as a result of a life-saving radical operation (1995). At the beginning of the discussion Müller ...

In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that ...

The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: “My rendezvous with Death ...

The central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead and the living, which also assumes the notion ...

In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the “birth of democracy” (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, ...

This “music magazine” is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), ...

Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century. He talks about his flight over Siberia and ...

Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as “greed,” “simply wanting to have everything, grasp ...

Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the “ploughshares of evil,” whose task it is “to create chaos, to destroy ...

A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro ...

Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to ...

Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a ...

In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments from ...

Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried ...

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

In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip from the ...

From August 1989 to March 1990, Heiner Müller and the Deutsches Theater ensemble develop “Hamlet/Maschine” amid East Germany’s peaceful uprising. ...

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

This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to having Müller recount events and memories ...

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets ...

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational ...