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- <text id=90TT1791>
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- July 09, 1990: Stagestruck
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GERMANY, Page 86
- Stagestruck
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- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell
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- <p> Heiner Muller was once without full recognition in his own
- country. The East German playwright had a festival of his works
- this month in Frankfurt, and has been praised by international
- audiences for plays like Hamletmaschine and Quartett. It's only
- now that his dramas, pointedly dealing with the theme of
- revolution betrayed, are being staged at home. If Muller, 61,
- were to dramatize the end of the Communist regime in East
- Berlin, he says, "it would be a tragedy about incompetence and
- stupidity." He adds that many figures in recent history wouldn't
- make strong fictional characters. One exception: Lenin.
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- </body>
- </article>
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