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Heiner Müller (German: [haɪnɐ mʏlɐ]; 9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre .
Wilson collaborated on the libretto with German playwright Heiner Müller, and also incorporated text from Racine and Shakespeare. The primary composer was Hans Peter Kuhn , with additional material by Michael Galasso , Philip Glass , David Byrne, Franz Schubert , and traditional Japanese gagaku music.
Opheliamachine is a postmodernist drama by the Polish-born American playwright and dramaturg, Magda Romanska.Written in the span of ten years, from 2002 to 2012, the play is a response to and polemic with the German playwright Heiner Mueller's Hamletmachine (in German, Die Hamletmaschine).
The Mission: Memory of a Revolution (Der Auftrag: Erinnerungen an eine Revolution), also known as The Task, is a postmodern drama by the (formerly East) German playwright Heiner Müller. The play was written and first published in 1979.
Opheliamachine, a postmodernist response to Heiner Mueller's Hamletmachine by the Polish-born American playwright and dramaturg Magda Romanska, premiered to critical acclaim at City Garage Theatre in Santa Monica, CA in 2013, opened at the Berliner Ensemble in Germany on September 30, 2022, and was published in nine languages by Bloomsbury in 2024.
Heiner Müller, who played a central role in recognizing the Fatzer text as a major drama of the 20th century, interpreted this latest effort as a deliberate lowering of standards in an attempt to "clear out the bodies form the cellars, while the houses are built on the same foundations", identified as a crucial dilemma of GDR cultural politics ...
1430) Stanislaw of Skarbimierz, Polish religious writer (d. 1431) ... 1360. February 26 – Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)
Quartet, sometimes written as Quartett, is a 1980 play written by the (formerly East) German playwright Heiner Müller.. Its subject matter rendered it unlikely for production under the GDR's repressive cultural policies, but Müller's status as the nation's most eminent playwright after the death of Bertolt Brecht allowed him great leeway for travel, and so when the progressive director of ...