Heiner Müller
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Heiner Müller Gets the Robert Wilson Treatment in Quartet...have grown so influential that they now risk appearing outmoded. Indeed, his production of Heiner Muller's Quartett, which he has revived for BAM's New Wave Festival, has all the familiar Wilson stylistic features: sculptural gestures,... In this article: Robert Wilson, Heiner Muller, Isabelle Huppert, Rigor, Choderlos de Laclos, and Les Liaisons dangereuses |
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Washington Times | November 09, 2009
THEATER: A 'Circle' of Woolly fun
...of Woolly favorites past and present, including artistic director Howard Shalwitz, who plays the pretentious and egocentric Heiner Muller, leader of the Berliner Ensemble theater company. Mr. Shalwitz's self-consciously arty performance...
In this article: Woolly mammoth, Charles L. Mee, Socialism, Berliner Ensemble, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Warren Buffett, and Bertolt Brecht
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Heiner Muller
...premiered in the West: this includes ''Germania Death in Berlin, which was first performed in 1978 at the Munich Kammerspiele. Heiner Muller himself directed a production of The Mission '' (''Der Auftrag) in Bochum in 1982. In Paris, Jean...
In this article: Bertolt Brecht, Berlin, Hamlet, Berliner Ensemble, The Mission, Hamletmachine, Herakles, Hydra, and Macbeth
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washingtonpost.com | October 27, 2009
Backstage: What's going around in Charles Mee's 'Full Circle' at Woolly Mammoth
...at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Woolly Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz plays revered German playwright and director Heiner Muller ("Hamletmachine") -- a highly fictionalized version of him, says Shalwitz -- who staged plays under...
In this article: Edgar Allan Poe and Woolly mammoth
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nymag.com: Theater | October 25, 2009
Brooklyn Hearts Huppert
...for Robert Wilson's twice-removed take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses. It's typical Wilson: a hyperstylized free adaptation of Heiner Muller's avant-garde play Quartett, which has two scheming, sexy French aristocrats exchanging declarative...
In this article: Isabelle Huppert, Robert Wilson, Brooklyn, Sarah Kane, Dracula, 4.48 Psychosis, Edward Steichen, and I Heart Huckabees
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The Australian | October 11, 2009
Enlarging the portrait of a murderer
...from antiquity are interlaced with modern interpretations: a confrontational, dystopic meditation by East German playwright Heiner Muller in the 1980s, a 90s baroque-inspired opera by French composer Pascal Dusapin, and the introduction...
In this article: Pascal Dusapin and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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The Mission (play)
...Erinnerungen an eine Revolution), also known as The Task, is a postmodern drama by the (formerly East ) German playwright Heiner Muller. The play was written and first published in 1979. Muller and his wife Ginka Cholakova co-directed its...
In this article: The Mission, Central Committee, Walter Benjamin, Anxiety, Paul Klee, Anna Seghers, Erich Honecker, and William Faulkner
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Inspired by the past imperfect
...can take out, and still have the production make sense." His first significant success as a director was in 1994, when he staged Heiner Muller's version of Shakespeare's bloody, vengeance-filled Titus Andronicus. "It spoke so loudly to our...
In this article: William Shakespeare, South Africa, Opera Queensland, Nelson Mandela, Cape Town, and Robben Island
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Inge Muller
...Oranienburg, from 1954 until 1959 where she enjoyed a privileged and unburdened existence. In autumn of 1953, she got to know Heiner Muller at a function of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Junger Autoren. She soon afterwards moved in a shared...
In this article: Inge Muller, Berlin, Suicide, Dog, World War II, and Luftwaffe
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Josef Szeiler
...director. As co-founder of the group TheaterAngelusNovus he is first of all known for his experimental approach to texts by Heiner Muller, Bertolt Brecht, Homer and Greek dramas . Josef Szeiler was born in Sankt Michael im Burgenland. At the...
In this article: Bertolt Brecht, Vienna, Sankt Michael im Burgenland, Viennese Actionism, Oresteia, Hamlet, and University of Vienna
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International Herald Tribune | March 28, 2009
Cultured Traveler: In Berlin, Authors Find Their Voice
...the rounds that this humble location had once housed the tobacco shop where the iconic East German avant-garde dramatist Heiner Muller used to buy his cigarettes. The possibility that the nicotine that powered the writing of Hamletmachine...
In this article: Berlin, New York, Alfred Doblin, London, Germany, Dog, Berliner Ensemble, and Nicotine
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Heiner Müller (January 9, 1929 – December 30, 1995) was a (formerly East) German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama. ==Biography==
Müller was born in Eppendorf, Saxony. He joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) in 1947 and began serving for the German Writers' Association (Deutscher Schriftsteller-Verband, DSV) in 1954. Müller became one of the most important dramatists of the German Democratic Republic and won the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1959 and the Kleist Prize in 1990.
His relationship with the East German state began to deteriorate, however, with his drama Die Umsiedlerin (The Resettler Woman) which was censored in 1961 after only one performance. Müller was banned from the Writers' Association in the same year. The East German government remained wary of Müller in subsequent years, preventing the premiere of Der Bau (Construction Site) in 1965 and censoring his Mauser in the early 1970s. Müller began to work with West German ensembles and theater houses in the 1970s and 80s, directing premières of some of his best-known works in Munich (Germania Tod in Berlin (Germania Death in Berlin), 1978), Essen (Die Hamletmaschine (Hamletmachine), 1979) and Bochum (Der Auftrag (The Mission), 1982).
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