Heiner Müller

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Heiner Müller

Acting January 9, 1929

Hamburg, Germany

Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postd…

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Zeugen des Jahrhunderts

Zeugen des Jahrhunderts

1979 TV Show
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

9.0 2002 TV Show
Der Ausländer

Der Ausländer

2004 Movie
Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

9.5 2003 Movie
Hamlet

Hamlet

2020 Movie
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

9.0 1987 Movie
Hamletmachine

Hamletmachine

2026 Movie
Unter Deutschen

Unter Deutschen

8.5 1995 Movie
"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics

"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics

1981 Movie
Hamletmachine

Hamletmachine

Movie
Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof

Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof

10.0 1998 Movie
Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen

Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen

8.0 1990 Movie

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Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Hamletmachine

    Movie Original Concept

  2. 2020
    Hamlet

    Movie Author

  3. 2018
    Happy Lamento

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  4. 2012
    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    Movie

  5. 2012
    Autoren erzählen

    TV show Self

  6. 2011
    A Warlike Sense for the Beautiful Things

    Movie Theatre Play

  7. 2009
    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  8. 2004
    Der Ausländer

    Movie

  9. 2003
    Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

    Movie Poem

  10. 2002
    Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

    TV show Self

  11. 1998
    Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof

    Movie Writer

  12. 1997
    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    Movie

  13. 1996
    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

    Movie

  14. 1996
    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Movie

  15. 1996
    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

    Movie

  16. 1995
    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    Movie

More credits
  1. 1995
    On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses

    Movie

  2. 1995
    Unter Deutschen

    Movie Self

  3. 1995
    The Voice of the Playwright

    Movie

  4. 1995
    Omnivore Democracy

    Movie

  5. 1995
    My Rendezvous with Death

    Movie

  6. 1994
    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    Movie

  7. 1994
    I Owe the World a Dead Person

    Movie

  8. 1994
    Under the Sign of Mars

    Movie

  9. 1993
    Anti-Opera

    Movie

  10. 1993
    The Death of Seneca

    Movie

  11. 1993
    Plowshare of Evil

    Movie

  12. 1993
    The Last of the Mohicans

    Movie

  13. 1993
    Mind, Power, Castration

    Movie

  14. 1992
    Frederick of Prussia

    Movie

  15. 1991
    “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

    Movie

  16. 1991
    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Movie

  17. 1991
    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    Movie

  18. 1990
    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Movie

  19. 1990
    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

    Movie

  20. 1990
    Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen

    Movie

  21. 1989
    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

    Movie

  22. 1989
    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

    Movie

  23. 1988
    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

    Movie

  24. 1987
    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

    Movie