Talk:Heiner Müller

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Theatre Portal This article is part of WikiProject Theatre, a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of theatre on Wikipedia. To participate: Feel free to edit the article attached to this page, join up at the project page, or contribute to the project discussion.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale. [FAQ] Please rate the article and, if you wish, leave comments here regarding your assessment or the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

	Germany Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Germany, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles related to Germany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project and help with our open tasks.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.)
Additional information: This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met Structure: not checked Grammar: not checked Supporting materials: not checked

v • d • e The Plays of Heiner Müller Ten Days | The Scab | The Correction | The Resettled Woman | The Construction Site | Oedipus | Philoctetes | Lancelot | Prometheus | Macbeth | Cement | The Horatian | Mauser | Tractor | The Battle | Germania Death in Berlin | Gundling's Life Frederick of Prussia Lessing's Sleep Dream Scream | Hamletmachine | The Mission | Quartet | Despoiled Shore Medea Material Landscape with Argonauts | the CIVIL warS | Explosion of a Memory/Description of a Picture | Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome A Shakespeare Commentary | Death Destruction & Detroit II | The Road of Tanks | Mommsen's Block | Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man

I've added this template to the article, along with a list with details of his significant plays and adaptations. There may be a few missing, so feel free the add them with the relevant details. You might also want to add the English title (in chronological order) to the template (by clicking on the small 'e' at the top of the template). The template is designed to provide consistency in the naming of individual articles on his plays. If you would like to create an article, please click the relevant link in the template (shown in red if there isn't an article on it already). When creating a new article, please remember to cite your sources (there is a bibliography at the bottom of this article that I've added today - you can copy and paste that for convenience) and please include as much composition and production history as you have available to you. Thanks, DionysosProteus 23:25, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Old Article

What follows here is the duplicate article that had been started in 2003, i.e. earlier than this one, under the wrong name Heiner Muller (which is now a redirect to here).

Anything salvagable should be merged.

Heiner Müller (1929-1995), dramatist, theatre director, poet, anarchist. He died on December 30, 1995, age 66, of throat cancer.

Heiner Muller's Hamletmachine, opens with the famous end of European culture, "I was Hamlet. I stood at the shore and talked with the surf BLABLA, the ruins of Europe behind me."

Asked for his opinion about what might constitute the truly postmodern drama and theater, Heiner Muller replied: 'The only postmodernist I know of is August Stram, who was a modernist and worked in a post-office'.

In the book Germania (NY: Autonomedia) Muller argues that Capitalism & Socialism have proven to be simply two different ways to control production & ensure the discipline of work. & that, since the "end of ideologies" in the West, all people have begun to question the validity of ideological conflict.

See the online Anarchist Encyclopedia.

Anarchist? Did he claimed it somewhere? -- Arne List 02:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

If you take the term in its broadest sense, I think you might be able to make an argument for that. I seem to remember that in Germania he identifies himself with the Autonomia of Antonio Negri et al., but I'd have to go check that, as it's been a while since I looked at it. DionysosProteus 17:30, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tell us about his work ;-)

This is a good basic biography, but at the moment it tells us little about Heiner Müller's work. His work has been categorised by some as "post-narrative theatre". What does this mean in Müller's case? I know very little more about him than this unfortunately. Ireneshusband 20:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not able to expand on this point in the article right now, but I agree there is much, much more to say about Müller's drama and theatre practice. It would be useful if you could provide a citation for the use of 'post-narrative theatre'. In terms of what Müller says about his work, it would refer to his critique of the Brechtian practice of a clear Fabel. There is a similar shift away from a Fabel dramaturgy in the work of Müller's British contemporary Caryl Churchill. DionysosProteus 17:34, 19 August 2007 (UTC)