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

Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller (2009)
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...

Keine Hand wäscht die Andere (1988)
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...

At Work in the Ruins of Morality (1970)
Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...

Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday (1989)
This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to having Müller recount events and...

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

Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by (1990)
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...

Heiner Müller on Legal Questions (1990)
"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...

Rome, as Far Away as the Moon (1991)
Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...

Every Frozen Structure has its Academy (1991)
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...

“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” (1991)
In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments...

Frederick of Prussia (1992)
Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a...

Mind, Power, Castration (1993)
Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to...

The Last of the Mohicans (1993)
A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...

Plowshare of Evil (1993)
Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...

The Death of Seneca (1993)
Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...

Anti-Opera (1993)
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...

Under the Sign of Mars (1994)
This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...

I Owe the World a Dead Person (1994)
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...

The World is Not Bad, but Full (1994)
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...

My Rendezvous with Death (1995)
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 Voice of the Playwright (1995)
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...

Omnivore Democracy (1995)
In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...

On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses (1995)
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...

Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day (1995)
The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...

He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded (1996)
A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...

Heiner Müller in Time Flight (1996)
Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...

Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management (1996)
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...

The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot (1997)
The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...

Rigor Was His Mark of Quality (2012)
Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...

Der Ausländer (2004)
Documentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88.

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1987)
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational...

Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof (1998)

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (2002)
"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...