Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 12, 2012

Runtime

0h 24m

Original Title

Härte war sein Gütezeichen

Director

Alexander Kluge

Description

Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller agrees with the following quote by Goethe: May God save me from self-awareness! For Müller, it represents a stoic attitude. When asked about "patriotism" in the sense of "What would you risk your life for, if necessary?", he can only come up with something "silly" at first: his daughter. But Müller is also a patriot of theater, in the sense of "maeeuticism", of putting-effort-into-it.