Hans heiner müller biography

German writer, poet, and theatre director (1929–1995)

Heiner Müller (German:[haɪnɐmʏlɐ]; 9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director.

His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.^[1]

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 (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED).

He was soon expelled for lacking enthusiasm and failing to pay dues.

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In 1954 he became member of the German Writers' Association (Deutscher Schriftstellerverband). 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.

His relationship with the East