Heiner Müller

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.

  • Title: Heiner Müller
  • Popularity: 0.063
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-01-09
  • Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
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  • Also Known As: Max Messer
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Heiner Müller Movies

  • 1995
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    Unter Deutschen

    Unter Deutschen

    7 1995 HD

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  • 2009
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    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

    1 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

    1 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    At Work in the Ruins of Morality

    At Work in the Ruins of Morality

    1 1970 HD

    Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...

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  • 1991
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    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    1 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    1 1991 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

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

    1 1991 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    Mind, Power, Castration

    Mind, Power, Castration

    1 1993 HD

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

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  • 1989
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    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

    1 1989 HD

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

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  • 1989
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    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

    1 1989 HD

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

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  • 1990
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    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

    1 1990 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    1 1990 HD

    "The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...

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  • 1992
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    Frederick of Prussia

    Frederick of Prussia

    1 1992 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    The Death of Seneca

    The Death of Seneca

    1 1993 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Under the Sign of Mars

    Under the Sign of Mars

    1 1994 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

    1 1993 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    Anti-Opera

    Anti-Opera

    1 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    1 1997 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    1 1993 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    1 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 1995
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    The Voice of the Playwright

    The Voice of the Playwright

    1 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 1995
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    On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses

    On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses

    1 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    I Owe the World a Dead Person

    I Owe the World a Dead Person

    1 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 1995
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    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    1 1995 HD

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

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  • 1996
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    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

    1 1996 HD

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

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  • 1996
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    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

    1 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    1 1996 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    Omnivore Democracy

    Omnivore Democracy

    1 1995 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    My Rendezvous with Death

    My Rendezvous with Death

    1 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    1 2012 HD

    Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...

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  • 1990
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    Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen

    Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen

    1 1990 HD

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  • 2004
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    Der Ausländer

    Der Ausländer

    1 2004 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

    1 1987 HD

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

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  • 1981
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    Kino 81

    Kino 81

    1 1981 HD

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  • 2020
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    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    1 2020 HD

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  • 1998
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    Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof

    Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof

    1 1998 HD

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  • 1970
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    Hamletmachine

    Hamletmachine

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2025
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    LÍNGUA DE FOGO

    LÍNGUA DE FOGO

    1 2025 HD

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  • 2012
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    Autoren erzählen

    Autoren erzählen

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2002
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    Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

    Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

    1 2002 HD

    "The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of the world of theater - illuminates the...

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  • 1979
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    Zeugen des Jahrhunderts

    Zeugen des Jahrhunderts

    1 1979 HD

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