Heiner Müller

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Heiner Müller

Literature

#412

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#1095

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Writing

#266

World Rank

#439

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Why Is Heiner Müller Influential?

According to Wikipedia, 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. Biography Müller was born in Eppendorf, Saxony. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1946 which was in the course of the forced merger of the KPD and SPD subsumed into the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . He was soon expelled for lacking enthusiasm and failing to pay dues. In 1954 he became member of the German Writers' Association . Müller became one of the most important dramatists of the German Democratic Republic and won the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1959 and the Kleist Prize in 1990.

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