Heiner Müller Movies

Documentary filmmaker Troller criss-crosses post-reunified “Transgermania” for a year, probing German identity through festivals...

In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to...

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

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...

The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...

A filmed Musical adaption of Heiner Müller's 1977 play HAMLETMACHINE preformed at The Castillo Theater in 2002.

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