Heiner Müller's Ghosts

About this Event

For Heiner Müller, the past was not only not gone, it was also the repository from which insights into the future could be gained: “One must dig up the dead, again and again, because only from them can one draw the future.” This “virulence of ghosts” (Durs Grünbein) is reflected in Müller's work in the presence of the dead, in the excavations of the material of history from which they emerge as living revenants. The decaying empires of yesterday provide the patterns of variation for the political developments of tomorrow.