A Heiner Müller reader ; plays, poetry, prose / edited and translated by Carl Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995.

Contributor:

Weber, Carl, 1925-2016.

Series:

PAJ books

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 2001

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995--Translations into English.

Müller, Heiner.

Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

Heiner Muller lived through Germany's tumultuous history from Hitler's rise through Soviet occupation to the building and eventual demolition of the Berlin Wall. One of his earliest memories was of his father being beaten by Brownshirts and taken away to a concentration camp; later, Muller chose to stay in the Soviet Zone even when his father defected to the West. His work presents a phantasmagoric vision of culture and history. Though a committed Marxist, Muller loathed the East German government, and his works were often censured for their caustic portrait of a Germany whose history was an unending act of division and violence.

ISBN:

0801865778

0801865786

OCLC:

44876925