Heiner Müller Movies
- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 1970

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'...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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