Heiner Müller Movies
- 1994
Under the Sign of Mars
Under the Sign of Mars01994HD
This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...
- 1991
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon01991HD
Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...
- 1993
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans01993HD
A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...
- 1991
Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
Every Frozen Structure has its Academy01991HD
At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine...
- 1991
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”01991HD
In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments...
- 1993
Mind, Power, Castration
Mind, Power, Castration01993HD
Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to...
- 1994
The World is Not Bad, but Full
The World is Not Bad, but Full01994HD
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...
- 1993
The Death of Seneca
The Death of Seneca01993HD
Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...
- 1993
Plowshare of Evil
Plowshare of Evil01993HD
Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...
- 1994
I Owe the World a Dead Person
I Owe the World a Dead Person01994HD
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...
- 1970
Hamletmachine
Hamletmachine01970HD
A filmed Musical adaption of Heiner Müller's 1977 play HAMLETMACHINE preformed at The Castillo Theater in 2002.
- 1995
The Voice of the Playwright
The Voice of the Playwright01995HD
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...
- 1992
Frederick of Prussia
Frederick of Prussia01992HD
Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a...
- 1996
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management01996HD
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...
- 1998
Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof
Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof01998HD
Documentary on Mão Morta's three sole concerts.
- 1997
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot01997HD
The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...
- 1995
Omnivore Democracy
Omnivore Democracy01995HD
In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...