Harald Mueller
Harald Waldemar Mueller (born May 18, 1934 in Memel ) is a German playwright , radio play author and translator .
Life
In 1945 Mueller and his family had to flee from East Prussia to Schleswig-Holstein. Post-high school Mueller worked as a miner , elevator operator , telephone operator at a military training camp of NATO , as a fair representative, reciter , radio plays and television writer. From 1955 to 1959 he attended drama schools in Munich and Hamburg and studied German and theater studies .
Martin Walser promoted Mueller as a playwright , and in 1969 he received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize and a scholarship for young playwrights from Suhrkamp Verlag for his debut Großer Wolf . The premiere at the Münchner Kammerspiele under the direction of Claus Peymann was, according to Benjamin Henrichs, "one of those hotly contested, contested spectacles" in 1970 . In the same year, the world premiere of the second piece Halbdeutsch followed on the same stage .
In Volker Schlöndorff Autorenfilm The sudden wealth of the poor people of Kombach joined Mueller on as an actor, the script of another film of Schlöndorff, The Morals of Ruth Halbfass , he worked with. Mueller translated Bernhard Shaw into German for Suhrkamp . From 1971 to 1974 he was dramaturge at the Berlin Schillertheater . Then Mueller withdrew from the public cultural scene and lived mainly on Sylt . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany . The piece Totenfloß, translated into 12 languages, became an international success in 1985/86 . The actress Maike von Bremen is his daughter.
Pieces (selection)
- Großer Wolf , first performance in 1970
- Half-German , first performance 1970
- Silent Night , first performed in 1973
- Winterreise , first performance 1975
- Executioner's Night Supper , first performed in 1978
- Totenfloß , world premiere in 1984
- Bolero , first performance in 1987
- Bonndeutsch , first performance 1987
- Double German , first performed in 1992
- Luther Rufen , first performance in 1996
literature
- Michaela Bürger-Koftis: The drama as a quotation empire. On the dramaturgy of language with Harald Mueller. Röhrig Universitätsverlag , St. Ingbert 2005, ISBN 3-86110-393-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Harald Mueller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Harald Mueller at Rowohlt Theater Verlag
- Benjamin Henrichs : The man in the dunes . In: Die Zeit of June 7, 1985.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Benjamin Henrichs : The man in the dunes . In: Die Zeit of June 7, 1985.
- ↑ And thump! In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1970, pp. 182-183 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mueller, Harald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mueller, Harald Waldemar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Memel |