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.
256 pages
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Semiotext(e); annotated edition edition (October 1, 1990)
# Language: English
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Title Germania
Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
Foreign Agents Series
Semiotext(e) foreign agents series
Authors Heiner Müller, Bernard Schütze, Sylvère Lotringer, Caroline Schütze
Editor Sylvère Lotringer
Translated by Bernard Schütze, Caroline Schütze
Edition annotated
Publisher Semiotext(e), 1990
Length 256 pages
Subjects Drama / American
Drama / Continental European
Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Drama / General
Germany
Germany - Politics and government - 20th century
History / Americas
History / Europe / Germany
M'uller, Heiner - Aesthetics
M'uller, Heiner - Knowledge - Germany
M'uller, Heiner - Political and social views
Political Science / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism