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HEINER MULLER (1929 - 1995) |
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Nationality: German Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: AO International |
Rosica Colin agent for UK only. He is represented worldwide by henschel Schauspiel/Berlin. Starting as a protege of Bertolt Brecht, Muller (1929-1995), who lived through the genocidal epicenter of the 20th century, evolved into one of the most innovative poets of the century. His stage works, which were banned for many years in his home country of East Germany, defy the limitations of theatre. Not only do his later plays have no plot, they are often devoid of specific characters and even dialogue
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Heiner Muller
Aboriginal protestors confront the declaration of the Australian republic on 26 January 2001 with the production of The commission, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | in The Mudrooroo/Muller project : a theatrical casebook, [Kensington, NSW] : NSW University Press, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | 086-8402370 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107008 | |||
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Genre: | Polemic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Ajax For Instance | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
Organisations: | Cutting Ball Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76078 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Battle, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Organisations: | Art & Scena, Bulgaria | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33079 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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Battle, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | PAJ Publications | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781555540494 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98075 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Duel, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grace, London | 1993 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25142 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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End, The Part 2 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #25143 | |||
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Genre: | 7 min Performance One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller. Based Medeaplay, presented at one minute past midnight | |||||
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Fighter Airplanes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Exit Theatre, San Francisco | 08 Oct 2004 | ||||
Organisations: | Cutting Ball Theatre Hidden Clasic Reading Series | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114134 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | Two jumbo jets want to go to war. A sexy French stewardess tries to stop them | |||||
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Foundling, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grace, London | 1993 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25144 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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Hamletmachine | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25145 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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Hamletmachine | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
Organisations: | Cutting Ball Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | PAJ Publication | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780933826458 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76079 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | Hamletmachine explores late 20th century Western culture, in a richly poetic and layered text. Heiner Muller's masterpiece borrows from Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, and Jean-Luc Godard, among others | |||||
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Landscape With Argonauts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1990 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25146 | |||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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Macbeth after Shakespeare | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ellen Stewart Theater, La MaMa | 08 Dec 2011 | ||||
Organisations: | Mini teater and Novo kazaliste Zagreb | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134470 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | Of Heiner Muller's several variations on Shakespeare texts, his Macbeth after Shakespeare was perhaps the most divisive. Soon after the 1971 publication of the script, the philosopher Wolfgang Harich, among others, attacked Muller for the pessimism and vulgarity of his interpretation, which brought to the text a preoccupation, then common in West German culture, with violence and pornography. By 1972, Muller had published a commentary explaining his approach: From the first scene, he felt the need for modification; he wanted to remove the idea of predestination. So, no witches or supernatural forces appear in Muller's text. Instead, the action of the play fits into a history of violence with no beginning and no end. Each murder leads to others, and the cycle of violence becomes more and more horrible at each turn. Muller has condensed the work; crimes follow one another with increasing speed. The monologues are radically shortened; there are no more moments of reflection and scruples. The playwright shows no hesitation in making his heroes even darker. He presents no one in a positive light. In the instructions at the beginning of the third scene, even King Duncan is sitting on a heap of corpses arranged in the shape of a throne. Macbeth is a bloody tyrant merely continuing the work of some other bloody tyrant. | |||||
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Mauser | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25147 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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Medea Game | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1990 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25148 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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Medea Material | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25149 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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Medea Material | ||
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Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105148 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Mission, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1982 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25150 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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Quartet v4.0 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Henry Street Settlement, 465 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002 >>> | 25 Feb 2010 | ||||
Organisations: | WaxFactory | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111257 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | axFactory's sci-fi QUARTET v4.0 stages East German playwright Heiner Muller's controversial text as a requiem for the end of the millennium, interpreting the play's apocalyptic scenario within a stark, transparent structure which serves as an arena for the vicious endgames of the protagonists quarantined within. Zeroing in on Valmont and Merteuil, the last survivors of a deadly plague, QUARTET v4.0 explores the dynamics of the relationship of a man and woman drawn into a dangerous ritual laced with jealousy and rage. Captured from multiple angles via surveillance cameras, the actors' live performances are projected on two large screens, bringing a unique intimacy and immediacy to the work. This video is simultaneously edited, processed, and broadcast in real time, enhanced with computer-generated animations and digital manipulation of the actors' voices, to striking futuristic effect. | |||||
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Quartet | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia >>> | 17 May 2012 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139518 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | Heiner Muller's ardently acclaimed and oft criticised Quartet (1981) is a refraction of Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangeureuses in contemplation on the end of humanity. Quartet revels in the decadence and degradation of Liaisons, taking both to dripping modernist heights, as Laclos' two protagonists switch characters and sexes (enacting also the president's wife and Merteuil's virgin niece) in a roleplay of boundless fetish and the ruination of virtue. | |||||
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Quartett | ||
| 1st Produced: | BAM Harvey Theatre, NY | 04 Nov 2009 | ||||
Organisations: | Odeon-Theatre de l'Europe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105900 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller. conceived by Robert Wilson; translated by Jean Jourdheuil and Beatrice Perregaux | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, German playwright Heiner Muller's Quartett is the foundation for this visually stylized yet visceral production from director Robert Wilson. Cynical libertine Madame de Merteuil is played by iconic French actress Isabelle Huppert, opposite Ariel Garcia Valdes as scheming seducer Monsieur de Valmont. Framed by blood-red curtains, and enhanced by Michael Galasso's dramatic score, the action taking place on stagewhile based on a familiar storyis re-imagined through Wilson's distinctive aesthetic lens. | |||||
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Razor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia >>> | 17 May 2012 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139519 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | Muller's reduction of four into two is ultimately an expansion: the variations of alternate persona revealing hitherto unrecognised possibilities of character. It takes but two to tango. Working from Haydn's string quartet in F minor Op.55 no.2 ( The Razor ) to create a musical parallel, composer Annie Hsieh has penned an enervating composition, which (as Muller departed from Laclos) carries with it the original in the face of two fewer players, and rejoices in the ensuing performative possibilities. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Russian Gambit | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grace, London | 1993 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25152 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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Slaughter | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 2003 | ||||
Organisations: | Semper Fi (Ireland) | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25153 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
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Vengeance, Bloodlust & Afternoon Tea: Armageddon, Cupcakes & The Poisonous Love Of Heiner Muller's Medea Material, Heartpiece & Quartet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatro Technis, London | 2005 | ||||
Organisations: | iMind Theatrical Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49333 | |||
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Genre: | Trilogy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Heiner Muller | |||||
Synopsis: | in the first play two ill-lit actors spout drivel at each other, secondly is a master-and-servant romp set in pre-1789 France finally a version of Medea shows that vanity is the sibling od madness. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waterfront Wasteland | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1990 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25154 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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