Heiner Müller
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0967 |
| Birthday | 1929-01-09 |
| Place of Birth | Hamburg, Germany |
| Also Known As | Max Messer, |
1995
Unter Deutschen
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Documentary filmmaker Troller criss-crosses post-reunified “Transgermania” for a year, probing German identity through festivals (Carnival, Oktoberfes...
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Unter Deutschen
2009
Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller
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This film not only illuminates Heiner Müller's life and works, it is more about questioning the "Sphinx" of the East and its saying about the loss of...
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Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller
1988
Keine Hand wäscht die Andere
7/1
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 entang...
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Keine Hand wäscht die Andere
At Work in the Ruins of Morality
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Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus' prose...
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At Work in the Ruins of Morality
1989
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
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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 from the...
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Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
1989
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
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In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from the Haml...
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Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
1990
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
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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 Russi...
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Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
1990
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
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"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so much" (Ger...
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Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
1991
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
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Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried Stroh pr...
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Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
1991
Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
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At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine to Klug...
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Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
1991
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
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In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments from the...
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“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
1992
Frederick of Prussia
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Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a cont...
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Frederick of Prussia
1993
Mind, Power, Castration
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Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to reigning po...
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Mind, Power, Castration
1993
The Last of the Mohicans
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A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and t...
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The Last of the Mohicans
1993
Plowshare of Evil
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Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of order." Not...
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Plowshare of Evil
1993
The Death of Seneca
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Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know everything." T...
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The Death of Seneca
1993
Anti-Opera
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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 his f...
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Anti-Opera
1994
Under the Sign of Mars
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This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial reminisce...
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Under the Sign of Mars
1994
I Owe the World a Dead Person
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In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, for example the sa...
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I Owe the World a Dead Person
1994
The World is Not Bad, but Full
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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 of a c...
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The World is Not Bad, but Full
1995
My Rendezvous with Death
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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 took pl...
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My Rendezvous with Death
1995
The Voice of the Playwright
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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 observes t...
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The Voice of the Playwright
1995
Omnivore Democracy
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In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that democracy...
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Omnivore Democracy
1995
On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
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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 that he...
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On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
1995
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
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The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his current pro...
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Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
1996
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
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A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an indiscretio...
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He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
1996
Heiner Müller in Time Flight
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Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek myths,...
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Heiner Müller in Time Flight
1996
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
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The discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book "Post-heroic Management: A Manual" by Dirk Baecker, which is...
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Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
1997
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
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The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with this...
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The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
2012
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
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Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller agrees with the...
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Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
1990
Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
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From August 1989 to March 1990, Heiner Müller and the Deutsches Theater ensemble develop “Hamlet/Maschine” amid East Germany’s peaceful uprising. Acto...
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Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
2004
Der Ausländer
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Documentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88.
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Der Ausländer
1987
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
9/2
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational opera...
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Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
1981
"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
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An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK
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"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
2018
Happy Lamento
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On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most venerated undergrou...
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