In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments...
On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets...
Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...
A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...
Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...
This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...
This film not only illuminates Heiner Müller's life and works, it is more about questioning the "Sphinx" of the East and its saying about the...
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...
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...
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational...
Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a...
Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...
Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...
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 point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...
Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...
The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...
In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...
