Person

Heiner Müller

Acting · 1929–1995 · Hamburg, Germany

Biography

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

Filmography

2026HamletmachineOriginal Concept
2020HamletAuthor
2018Happy LamentoSelf (archive footage)
2012Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
2012Autoren erzählenSelf
2009Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner MüllerSelf (archive footage)
2004Der Ausländer
2003Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried MePoem
2002Das Jahrhundert des TheatersSelf
1998Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer HofWriter
1997The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
1996Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
1996Heiner Müller in Time Flight
1996He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
1995Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
1995On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
1995Unter DeutschenSelf
1995The Voice of the Playwright
1995Omnivore Democracy
1995My Rendezvous with Death
1994The World is Not Bad, but Full
1994I Owe the World a Dead Person
1994Under the Sign of Mars
1993Anti-Opera
1993The Death of Seneca
1993Plowshare of Evil
1993The Last of the Mohicans
1993Mind, Power, Castration
1992Frederick of Prussia
1991“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
1991Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
1991Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
1990Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
1990Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
1990Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
1989Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
1989Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
1988Keine Hand wäscht die Andere
1987Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
1981"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film criticsSelf
1979Zeugen des JahrhundertsSelf
—At Work in the Ruins of Morality
—HamletmachineWriter

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