Heiner M%C3%BCller

Heiner Mller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as the theatres greatest living poet since Samuel Beckett, Mller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht. His enigmatic, fragmentary pieces are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.

Mller was born in Eppendorf, Saxony. He joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1947 and began serving for the German Writers Association in 1954. Mller 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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