...Thomas Freeland Heiner Müller's dramatic poem Mommsen's Block (1993) presents an image of the great classical historian stymied, as Müller reports, by the “depravity of the later Caesars,” unable to finish the projected fourth volume of his Roman History . This case of an author unable to write...

...” in the 1970s is the German Democratic Republic (GDR) playwright Heiner Müller, one of the leading agents, as Huyssen suggests, in this “confrontation of history and fiction, history and representation, history and myth.”2 Indeed, Müller offered a succinct formula for this nostalgic uto- pianism when he...

...Jonathan Kalb Germania 3: Gespenster am toten Mann: Heiner Müller and the Art of Posthumous Provocation Jonathan Kalb Germania 3: Gespenster am Toten Mann, or Germania 3: Ghosts at the Dead Man, is Heiner Müllerʼs posthumously published...

...Frank Hörnigk Müllerʼs Memory Work Frank Hörnigk To quote Heiner Müller in conversation with Sylvère Lotringer in 1981: “To banish the ghoul of history, one must fi rst concede the very existence of his- tory. One must know history. Otherwise...

...David Bathrick New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Robert Wilson, Heiner Müller, and the Preideological David Bathrick Heiner Müller and Robert Wilson came from very different social and aes- thetic worlds: the one a Marxist dialectician from...

... of A version of this article was originally presented at the conference “Heiner Müller in Performance” at Cornell University, September 26–27, 2003. 1. The history of Hamlet reception in Germany, particularly in the context of political allegory, is a long and interesting one. Though Ferdinand...

... Production Plays of the corpus that Wolfgang Emmerich dismissed in 1988, two years before the demise of the GDR, as mere “agitation versifi cation and yes-man plays [Bejahungsstücke1 Heiner Müller hardly stands accused as a yes-man. On the contrary, by the 1980s Müller appeared to have...

... the need to forget.7 As Heiner Müller put it, “The dead is not dead in history.”8 In the context of post-1989 Germany, this manifests itself particularly in the troubled legacy of the fascist past, which is also of course compounded by the second truncated past of the GDR. Notable...

... Harro Müller Theodor W. Adorno repeatedly addressed issues concerning the conception of language and the critique of language. In his early “Theses on the Language of Philosophy” he states emphatically, “All deceiving ontology is especially to be exposed by means of a critique of language.”1...

... to the late 1980s. She initiated the journal’s projects on Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller and translated some of Müller’s most important plays. Helen was instrumental in editing NGC ’s first special feminist issue (no. 13) and also contributed essays on Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann. At The Ohio State...

... the winged figure can still maintain this protective flight. Heiner Müller’s “Hapless Angel” depicts its angel as buried beneath the falling debris of history that Benjamin’s angel observed from above. Like Kiefer’s art, Müller’s poetry is an attempt to reckon with the specific cultural and historical trauma...

... that the reunification was experienced and ratified as a conquest of normalcy. Jan-Werner Müller has described the most widespread intellectual perceptions of the historical turn embodied by the birth of the Berlin Republic through metaphors like pathology versus health or childhood versus adulthood . Debates around...

... first book after his return to Europe was Towards a Philosophy of Photography. The publisher, Andreas Müller-Pohle, remembers in his memo- rial in Kunstforum International that he met Flusser at a 1981 symposium on photography in Schloß Mickeln in Düsseldorf, where the media theorist deliv...

... of Origins.” Qui Parle 12 , no. 3 : 55 – 76 . Müller Götz . 1981 . “Hans Blumenberg, Arbeit am Mythos.” Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 100 : 314 –1 8 . Müller Jan-Werner . 2014 . “On Conceptual History.” In Rethinking European Intellectual History , edited...

... to the past rather than to the future for utopian think- ing and imagination, Devin Fore offers an insightful reading of Heiner Müller’s rewrites of the classics from antiquity (Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, and Pro- metheus) as “myths of labor” and “myth as labor.” This interpretation argues against...

... under Blumenberg’s name: Realität und Realismus and Beiträge zum Problem der Ursprünglichkeit . For an overview, see Bajohr, “Gebrochene Kontinuität.” 7. Zill, Der absolute Leser ; Goldstein, Hans Blumenberg ; Müller and Zill, Blumenberg-Handbuch . Important contributions...

...-war Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past, ed. Jan-Werner Müller (New York: Cambridge Univer- sity Press, 2002), 76–99; Helmut Schmitz, ed., A Nation of Victims? Representations of Wartime Suffering from 1945 to the Present (New York: Rodopi, 2007). Richard Bessel examines how Ger- mans...

... . 10. Blumenberg quoted in Müller, Sorge um die Vernunft , 334 ; Blumenberg, Die Verführbarkeit , 138 (hereafter cited as V ). 11. Blumenberg, Zu den Sachen und zurück , 190 . 12. Blumenberg, Zu den Sachen und zurück , 350 . 13. See, e.g., Bülow and Krusche...

... the precious essays they had written in high school to impress their teachers and please their parents. Their didactic pamphlets, claims the director Martin Müller, told you how to think and what to see. And such a schoolmasterly approach would have a ruinous long-term effect. “We make the most beautiful cars...