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Heiner Müller
(1929-1995) |
is probably the most significant European playwright of the second half of the 20th century.
He is certainly the most theatrically challenging playwright of our epoch. Starting as a protege of Bertolt Brecht, Müller evolved into one of the great innovative poets of the century, writing texts for the stage that seem to defy the limitations of theatre. |
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Black Mirror / For Helnwein
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A story by Stephen King. An American schoolboy, twelve or thirteen years old, fascinated in his small-town boredom by documents on the German concentration camps - the way his classmates are by Superman - the formula of his fascination: they just did those things. At his daily bus stop, he recognises a face he has seen in photographs, under a black cap with skull insignia and above a black SS uniform. The boy blackmails the unidentified murderer into talking: how did you do those things. The murderer talks to save his life. Curiosity becomes the urge for real experience: the two of them found Murder, Inc. and rid the small town of dogs, tramps, and other "unworthy life" ... How can a friendly person like Helnwein stand making his - excellent - painting into a mirror of the terrors of this century? Or is it that he can't stand not doing it? Does his mirror just reflect the attitude of the century: Terror without end is better than an ending in terror, which comes from the over-evaluation of death, a consequence of tabooing it with statistics. Perseus guillotines the Gorgon in the mirror, and when the head falls, it is his own. How many heads does a person/man have in our age of mirrors?
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