Wolfgang Müller (writer)

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Wolfgang Müller (born August 18, 1941 in Waren (Müritz) ; † November 28, 2013 in Strohkirchen ) was a German writer , radio play and film author .

Life and work

The second son of the administrative secretary and former SPD functionary Kurt Müller and his wife, the seamstress Ella Müller (née Ruhland), born in Waren an der Müritz, he was the 12 years younger brother of the writer Heiner Müller . When his parents fled to West Germany in 1951 , Wolfgang Müller went with them to the West, but came back to the GDR at the end of the 1950s . He worked as a salesman, farm worker, construction worker, ship mechanic and crane operator, then was assistant director at GDR television and DEFA documentary film studio , worked as a freelance writer from 1972 and lived in Strohkirchen near Hagenow from 2002 until his death . He was married to the writer Katja Lange-Müller .

Works (selection)

Radio plays and features:

  • 1972: Let the Wölfi do it for once (GDR radio - children's radio play, director: Manfred Täubert)
  • 1973: Three hands of water from the river (GDR radio - radio play, director: Werner Grunow )
  • 1974: The Trace of Helfried Pappelmann (GDR radio - radio play, director: Wolfgang Schonendorf )
  • 1999: How Reimund Heiner became - The early years of the writer Heiner Müller (MDR FIGARO - Feature, Director: Sabine Ranzinger)

Prose:

  • 1974: River stories , Hinstorff Verlag Rostock 1974, 191 pages

Films:

  • 1975: The traces of Helfried Pappelmann (scenario - TV film, television of the GDR, director: Martin Eckermann )
  • 1977: Fire below deck (scenario - DEFA feature film, director: Herrmann Zschoche )
  • 1988: Darned misfortune! (Scenario - DEFA children's film, director: Hannelore Unterberg )
  • 1990: Why I ... , 138th episode in the series Polizeiruf 110 , (script together with Gabriele Kotte - television of the GDR, director: Ursula Bonhoff)
  • 1990: biology! (Scenario and script together with Gabriele Kotte - DEFA feature film, director: Jörg Foth )
  • 1991: Das Treibhaus , 149th episode in the series Polizeiruf 110 , (script together with Gabriele Kotte - Television of the GDR, director: Jörg Foth )
  • 1992: Mothers and Sons: Else (interview - documentary, contemporary witness TV Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH)
  • 2005: In memoriam Heiner Müller (1929-1995) (interview - documentary, contemporary witness TV Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH)

Film portrait

  • 2010: The Unknown Brother , documentary by André Kotte and Gudrun Brigitta Nöh, 40 min.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Ensikat: The little brother in: Der Tagesspiegel from January 10, 2014
  2. ↑ The strange transformation of Jenny K. , radio plays, Henschelverlag Berlin 1976, p. 216
  3. ^ Reprinted in: The strange transformation of Jenny K. , radio play, edited by Dr. Peter Gugisch , Henschelverlag Berlin 1976, pp. 73-93
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Goods (Müritz)
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2013
Place of death Straw churches