Heiner Müller Movies

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...

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

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...

"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...

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...

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

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

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...