Heiner Müller

Biography

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.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

40

Birth Date

1929-01-09 00:00:00

Birth Place

Hamburg, Germany

Known For

• At Work in the Ruins of Morality
• Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
• Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller
• 

  Der Ausländer
• The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
• Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

Credits

• writing (4 credits)

  • Hamletmachine

    writer

    writing
    2026
  • Hamletmachine

    original concept

    writing
    2026
  • Hamlet

    author

    writing
    2020
  • Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof

    writer

    writing
    1998

• actors (35 credits)

  • At Work in the Ruins of Morality

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Happy Lamento

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Der Ausländer

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Unter Deutschen

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • The Voice of the Playwright

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Omnivore Democracy

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • My Rendezvous with Death

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • The World is Not Bad, but Full

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • I Owe the World a Dead Person

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Under the Sign of Mars

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Anti-Opera

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • The Death of Seneca

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Plowshare of Evil

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • The Last of the Mohicans

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Mind, Power, Castration

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Frederick of Prussia

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • "Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1981

• crew (1 credits)

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

    poem

    crew
    2003