Heiner Müller

German 

Biography

Born 9th January 1929 in Eppendorf in Chemnitz,

died at 30 December 1995 in Berlin.  

Heiner Müller, one of the most important German writer in poetry and prose was also a director and manager in the popular theatre scene.

1950, he wrote articles for several newspapers  

1954-1955, he researcher at the East German Writers Association  

1958-1959 Staff at Maxim Gorkij Theater.  

1959 beginning as a professional writer.  

1961 premiere of the comedy "The Umsiedlerin or life in the countryside" That piece, it came to corruption, was until 1975 as a print out. It was, to critical remarks on the DDR regime. Besides a ban on performing the show followed the expulsion from the writers' association because of his critical public statements.

Died in 1966 his first wife, the writer Inge Müller, also at the conclusion several of his works was involved, through suicide.

1970 to 1976 he was at the Berliner Ensemble acting as dramaturge. Then he moved to Volksbuehne. A year later he received the National Prize of the GDR, representing a rehabilitation of the writer.  

1985 Award of the Georg Büchner Prize, Germany's most important literary award.  

In 1988 he returned to the writers' association added. 

1990, he was the last president of the Academy of Arts in East Berlin elected. 

1990 Heinrich von Kleist price. 

In 1992 he became a member of the Board of the Academy of Arts.  

In 1995, Heiner Müller, tue Berliner Ensemble. Müller was a widely honoured playwright. 

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