This volume contains eight texts which radically question how culture, myth, art, and human relations create history. The poetically violent language and surreal imagery of the settings -- a faceless American president as a robot, Medea in East Berlin -- evoke the devastated landscape of a haunted nuclear age.

Hamletmachine and other Texts for the Stage (PAJ Books)

Arts & Photography

Heiner Müller

Performing Arts

PAJ Publications

This best-selling volume contains several of the German author's most controversial dramas, in which he radically questions how culture, myth, art, and social relations create history. Includes: Hamletmachine, Correction, The Task, Quartet, Despoiled Shore, and Gundling's Life. One of the most original theatrical minds of our time, Müller, who resided in East Berlin before his death in 1995, was a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson.

Hamlet-Machine and Other Texts for the Stage

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Reflections on the laws of history from the standpoint of someone straddling the Berlin Wall.
Heiner Muller, East German author of Hamletmachine and Medea, was the preeminent German successor of Bertholt Brecht at the end of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays, stories, and interviews conducted by Sylvere Lotringer, Muller reflects on the laws of history from the standpoint of someone straddling the Berlin Wall. Muller saw the wall as both repression and protection of his compatriots from the inevitable triumph of capitalism. His work evokes the wit and compactness of Brecht, with an added psychotropic dimension. Haunted by World War II, Muller was a leading figure in European contemporary literature, whose writing anticipates a future beyond the bipolarity of twentieth-century politics.

Germania

History

Americas

Semiotext

An important contribution to modern drama.--Choice

The Battle: Plays, Prose, Poems (Cambridge South Asian Studies; 43)

This new anthology traces the multifaceted evolution of Heiner Müller the playwright, poet, and eloquent observer of his century’s violent trajectory. The writings collected here range from Müller’s earliest work, including short stories and early poems from the 1950s, to some of his last works, including Germania 3Ghosts at Dead Man. His work presents a phantasmagoric vision of culture and history.

A Heiner Muller Reader: Plays, Poetry, Prose

' Germania Tod in Berlin'. 'Der Auftrag'. Mit Materialien. (Lernmaterialien) (German Edition)

Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart

Revolutionsstucke

Philipp Reclam, Jun Verlag GmbH

Suhrkamp

Die Stucke

Suhrkamp Publishers

Helnwein Faces

Gottfried Helnwein

william-s-burroughs

Reinhold Misselbeck

Edition Stemmle, Switzerland

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