Müller & Müller (Uraufführung)
Müller & Müller (Uraufführung)
Scenes of a writer's marriage in a spectacular setting from texts by Heiner and Inge Müller
Heiner Müller was one of the most famous writers of the GDR. His influential work has been and continues to be revered far beyond its borders. Inge Müller, who wrote significant poetry, has largely been forgotten as a writer today. The two were married since 1955 and spent a short but intense creative period in the Lusatia region at the end of the 1950s.
On the occasion of the repair of a damaged overburden conveyor bridge in the Klettwitz open pit mine near Senftenberg, both researched and wrote the audio piece "Klettwitzer Bericht," which was published in 1958 and premiered as a play at the Senftenberg Theater in the same year. Other so-called production pieces, i.e., dramas set in socialist industrial production, were developed, written, and awarded together. Heiner and Inge Müller are considered co-creators of this new and unique drama of the young GDR. At the same time, both wrote numerous poems that were closely related to each other, expressing their concerns, attitudes, and feelings for each other powerfully and very personally.
At the original site of "Klettwitzer Bericht," two young actors, today approximately the same age as the Müllers at that time, dive deeply with the audience into the love and work relationship of Inge and Heiner Müller, making their partnership perceptible against the backdrop of the then-construction of a socialist society and Lusatia's industrial culture. They unfold a site-specific and immersive station theater that confronts the poetic intimacy of their fragile poet love with the overwhelming rawness of the open-pit landscape. The theater evening connects texts of the couple, bringing them to life in dialogue, and thus unfolds the drama of a passionate and tumultuous relationship, which ended on June 1, 1966, with Inge Müller's suicide. In this context, "Müller & Müller" specifically focuses on the utopian endeavor of an artistic and partnership symbiosis, within which the social utopia of a solidarity-based togetherness was also to be realized, and tracks the success and failure of this enormous experiment.
The year 2025 marks the 100th birthday of the (re)discovering author Inge Müller, the 30th anniversary of the death of the once-star writer Heiner Müller, and the 70th wedding anniversary of the two poets. In the play "Müller & Müller," the spirits of the writing couple now encounter the gigantic successor of the overburden conveyor bridge they once wrote about: the F60. And that one is still – inaugurated in 1991, it ceased operations after just one year of service due to the structural change in the region and was eventually transformed into an open-air museum. And yet, the revenants find no peace...
"Müller & Müller" combines live radio play with scenic homage and chamber theatrical relationship drama with a night tour on the F60. An extraordinary Lusatian original against a magnificent backdrop.
Adaptation and direction: Michael Höppner
Premiere: September 12, 19:00
Further performance: September 13, 19:00
Lichterfeld-Schacksdorf, visitor mine "F60"
Bus shuttle from and to the new stage Senftenberg
Cooperation of the Lausitz Festival and the new stage Senftenberg
in collaboration with the Förderverein Besucherbergwerk F60 e.V. and F60 Concept GmbH
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Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
