A Heiner Müller Reader: Plays, Poetry, ProseHeiner 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. |
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A Collage of Poetry and Prose | 1 |
Dont laugh but if a town has perished | 3 |
And between ABC and two times two | 4 |
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