Movies
- 1996

Heiner Müller in Time Flight
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Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...
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- 1994

Under the Sign of Mars
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This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...
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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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- 1993

The Death of Seneca
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Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...
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- 1996

He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
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A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 1994

I Owe the World a Dead Person
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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...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 1996

Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
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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...
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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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- 1976

Die Schlacht - Szenen aus Deutschland
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Scenes relating to a theater production on the nazi era in Germany.
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- 1995

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

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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- 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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