Death as Performance in the Conversations between Heiner Müller and Alexander Kluge

The subject of this essay is the East German dramatist Heiner Müller (1929–1995) focusing on his role of interviewee and analysing his 24 conversations for the West German television with the director and producer Alexander Kluge (1932–). The conversations took place between 1988 and 1995 and are presented, in a shortened and modified version, in the two volumes edited by Kluge,