Heiner Müller Movies

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

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

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

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

Documentary on Mão Morta's three sole concerts.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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