Unter Deutschen

Documentary filmmaker Troller criss-crosses post-reunified “Transgermania” for a year, probing Germa

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

Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

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

At Work in the Ruins of Morality

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

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

Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

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

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.

Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

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

Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

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

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

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

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

Frederick of Prussia

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

Mind, Power, Castration

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

The Last of the Mohicans

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

Plowshare of Evil

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

The Death of Seneca

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

Anti-Opera

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

Under the Sign of Mars

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

I Owe the World a Dead Person

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

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

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

The Voice of the Playwright

One of Müllers's vocal cords was paralyzed as a result of a life-saving radical operation (1995). At

Omnivore Democracy

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

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

Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing

He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an an

Heiner Müller in Time Flight

Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare'

Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

The discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book "Post-hero

The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Uni

Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an exa

Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen

From August 1989 to March 1990, Heiner Müller and the Deutsches Theater ensemble develop “Hamlet/Mas

Der Ausländer

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

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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