Heiner Müller Movies
- 1970
At Work in the Ruins of Morality
At Work in the Ruins of Morality01970HD
Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...
- 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...
- 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
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...
- 2020
Hamlet
Hamlet02020HD
- 1996
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded01996HD
A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...
- 1990
Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen01990HD
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2012
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality02012HD
Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...
- 1989
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday01989HD
This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to having Müller recount events and...
- 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...
- 1987
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars01987HD
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational...
- 1995
Unter Deutschen
Unter Deutschen71995HD
- 1995
My Rendezvous with Death
My Rendezvous with Death01995HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1996
Heiner Müller in Time Flight
Heiner Müller in Time Flight01996HD
Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...