Heiner Müller: Hamletmaschine
Thanks to Sunnyi Melles for remembering him and reminding us on the occasion of the Salzburg Festival opening 2009.
7/31/2009
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- wemo
- Hi, I'm a native and resident of Salzburg, Austria; yes, the place of "Sound of Music" and Mozart, near Hitler's notorious "Eagle's Nest". Yet there's more to it. Let's see as we go along! Ein Salzburger, der 'Sound of Music' dutzende Male gesehen hat und sich ernsthaft Gedanken drüber gemacht hat – vielleicht ahnen Sie in welcher Branche Ihr Blogger arbeitet. Bloß hier gibts genügend anderes zu sehen, zu denken, zu fotografieren und schreiben. Mal sehen!
Sorry, as I've worked on this for quite a while, let me give you the correct quote in Heiner Müller's very own typography, and let me add that here, as so often, he quoted himself – it's taken from his earlier play Zement / Cement:
ReplyDeleteWIE EINEN BUCKEL SCHLEPP ICH MEIN SCHWERES GEHIRN
ZWEITER CLOWN IM KOMMUNISTISCHEN FRÜHLING
and one more line from a little later in the play; speaker now identified as "Hamletdarsteller":
"Ich gehe nach Hause und schlage die Zeit tot, einig/Mit meinem ungeteilten Selbst."
It might be interesting to come back to reading or staging Heiner Müller, whose plays have been reduced to 'fashionable' quotes/accessories in dubious 'Regietheater'-stagings of other plays; e.g. Moliere's 'Tartuffe' turned into a political doomsday fantasy by adding Müller-quotes from "Schlacht" to the last act. Neither Moliere nor Müller have done anything to deserve this approach. And I absof***inglutely hate it in all modesty.