Abstract:Drawing on Heiner Müller's acceptance speech following the award of the Kleist Prize in 1990, this article explores a history of reception running from Heinrich von Kleist via Bertolt Brecht to Heiner Müller. Despite the rejection of Prussian militarism by both Müller and Brecht -and their scepticism about Prussia's enlightened status -the history and literature of Prussia serve as a foil against which the ideological conflicts of the twentieth century can be played out. For both Brecht and Müller, Kleist's Pr… Show more
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