Heiner Müller Movies

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 observes t...

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 Boulez, and that he...

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 sa...

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

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

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 is...

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

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

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 took pl...

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

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

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