biography
pronunciation:
[müler]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1929–95)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Eppendorf, E Germany. Initially a journalist, he worked at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in East Berlin (1958–9), was a playwright for the Berlin Ensemble (1970–6), and became one of its directors in 1992. A Communist, his work was influenced by Bertolt Brecht and is vigorously anti-fascist, humanist, and later also critical of the socialist regime in East Germany. He wrote plays together with his wife, Inge Müller, and adaptations of Shakespeare and classical drama, including Philoktet (1965) and Oedipus Tyrann (1968). One of the most significant and much-performed playwrights of the 20th-c, he was awarded the Georg-Büchner-Preis in 1985 and the Kleist Preis in 1990. |
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