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The playwright Heiner Mueller was born in East Germany in 1929. His
work is complex, but the large body of work which he has written
since the early 1960s has made him one of Europe's leading
dramatists. Since the Berlin Wall came down he has travelled freely
in Europe, speaking to students and experimental groups. This book
contains an introduction to Mueller's work, and a selection of his
plays, poetry, short prose and essays.
This best-selling volume contains several of the German author's
most controversial dramas, in which he radically questions how
culture, myth, art, and social relations create history. Includes:
"Hamletmachine, Correction, The Task, Quartet, Despoiled Shore, "
and "Gundling's Life." One of the most original theatrical minds of
our time, Muller, who resided in East Berlin before his death in
1995, was a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson.
"The most important German playwright since Brecht." -- John
Rockwell, New York Times
Against the background of recent social upheavals in the former
German Democratic Republic, Heiner Mller's articulation of his
country's history and politics assumes a startling intensity.
Due to the limited number of digits or bits per storage location in
electronic computers, round-off errors arise during arithmetic
operations. Depending upon the kind of operation, the structure of
the data, and the skillfulness of the program, these errors
increase and spread out more or less quickly during a continued
computation process in which the computed data affected by errors
are themselves used for generating new data. The purpose of this
investigation was to learn about the increase of round-off errors
in linear programming procedures. Less attention was paid to the
theory of round-off errors or to the effectiveness of error
elimination procedures. In regard to these questions the results of
in vestigations which have been made on round-off errors in a more
general context dealing with matrix inversion and eigenvalue
problems could be used for the purposes of this paper. The emphasis
of this investigation lay rather on studying the behavior of
typical linear programming problems from the pOint of view of error
cumulation."
Reihenfolgeprobleme stehen im Fachgebiet des Operations Research
seit einiger Zeit im Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Nachdem bis vor
wenigen Jahren fur viele Reihenfolgeprobleme noch keine brauchbaren
Loesungs- verfahren bekannt waren, wurden seit etwa 1960
verschiedene Verfahren entwickelt, die kleine und mittelgrosse
Probleme mit wirtschaftlich ver- tretbarem Aufwand exakt und
groessere Probleme mit hinreichender Genauigkeit zu loesen
gestatteten. In der vorliegenden Arbeit sollen diese Verfahren
diskutiert und vor allem uber die mit ihnen an zahlreichen
Beispielen gewonnenen Erfahrungen berichtet werden. Bei der
Beschrei- bung der Verfahren stehen algorithmische Gesichtspunkte
und Fragen der Eignung zur Programmierung fur elektronische
Rechenautomaten im Vordergrund. Einige neuere Verfahren wurden auf
Rechenautomaten getestet. Die dabei erzielten Ergebnisse werden
ausfuhrlich analysiert. Bei der Darstellung habe ich mich von der
Maxime leiten lassen, ein schnell lesbares Buch hervorzubringen.
Dem Leser, gleichgultig ob Theoretiker oder Praktiker, moechte ich
damit die Gelegenheit bieten, sich mit einem Minimum an Zeit in die
wesentlichen Strukturen der Reihenfolgeprobleme und deren
Loesungsverfahren einzuarbeiten. Zu diesem Zweck habe ich bei der
Beschreibung der Loesungsverfahren jeweils nach einfuhrenden
Eroerterungen Beispiele zur Demonstration herangezogen und erst
abschliessend die allgemeingultigen Formulierun- gen der Verfahren
gegeben. Auf mathematischen Formalismus habe ich weitgehend
verzichtet, soweit er nicht zum Verstandnis der Probleme und
Verfahren erforderlich oder zum Lesen der wichtigsten Fachliteratur
unumganglich war.
"Heiner Muller After Shakespeare" makes available for the first
time "Macbeth" and "Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome," the last of the
Shakespeare-inspired plays of the renowned German author to be
translated into English. His reflections on the importance of his
chosen dramatic model are highlighted in the text of his address
"Shakespeare A Difference," also included in the volume. Muller
(1929-1995), whose "Hamletmachine" is a contemporary classic, is
regarded as one of the most profound visionaries of
twentieth-century drama and at the time of his death was one of
Europe's leading intellectual figures. His Shakespeare plays are
startling in their imagery and poetry and uncompromising depiction
of the violence of power and politics. Truly, they are plays for
our age.
Since first introducing his work to the English-speaking world in
1983 with "Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage," PAJ
Publications has also published several other volumes by the
author: "Explosion of a Memory," "The Battle," "The Heiner Muller
Reader." They include his dramatic works as well as poems,
speeches, and interviews. "Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the
Stage" is one of PAJ's best-selling titles, with over 10,000
volumes in print.
The volume is translated by Carl Weber and Paul David Young. Weber
has edited and translated all the Muller volumes, as well as plays
by Kleist, Handke, and Kroetz. Also a director, he is professor
emeritus at Stanford University. Young is the recipient of the
Kennedy Center's Paul Vogel Playwriting Award. He is currently
working on a film version of his play "In the Summer Pavilion."
"Heiner Muller was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century
and will undoubtedly be among the most indispensable of the 21st,
the terrors of which his plays seem to have anticipated and
anatomized. As Shakespeare's dramatic poems emerged from an
historical moment of a great linguistic and cultural synthesis,
Muller's gorgeous, mind-bending and altering upgrades of
Shakespeare mark our present crisis-moment of linguistic and
cultural discombobulation, if not disintegration." - Tony Kushner,
playwright
"Heiner Muller's unmistakable voice--ferocious and brilliant,
brutal and profoun -- burns through in pitch-perfect translations.
"Macbeth" and "Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome" are the perfect
Shakespearean vehicles for Muller's vision of the bloody twentieth
century. These plays are not just great theatre--and they are great
theatre--they are indispensable documents of European culture." -
Oskar Eustis, artistic director, The Public Theater
"Heiner Muller's plays, astonishing in their punch and poetry, are
imbued with muscularity, richness and theatricality. His influence
on the field is palpable and PAJ's publications of brilliant
translations will help to ensure that Muller's wide-open vision of
the theatre will proliferate. We urgently need his combination of
the political, personal and aesthetic in our current culture." -
Anne Bogart, artistic director, Siti Company
"A new volume of Heiner Muller's coruscating, deeply damaged
performance prose/ poetry arrives just in time for further chapters
of the continued degradation and decline of the West. His theatre
pieces take on galling new dimensions as democracies all over the
world are in crisis and citizens of Arab countries pour into the
streets to demand self-determination.... Heiner Muller was a
connoisseur of tyranny. The violence and the decay are already in
the language, and thus his rendezvous with Shakespeare.... After
the fire, there is space for new growth in an old forest." - Peter
Sellars, director
Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important
German dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Muller (1929-95)
still remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking world.
This collection of plays aims to change that, presenting new
translations and opening up his work to a larger audience.
Collected here are three of his plays--"Philoctetes," "The
Horatian," and "Mauser"--whose poetic texts evidence the influence
of Shakespeare, classical Greek tragedy, and avant-garde political
theater on his works. Together they constitute what Muller called
an "experimental series," which both develops and critiques
Brecht's theory of the "Lehrstuck," or "learning play." Based on a
tragedy by Sophocles, "Philoctetes" dramatizes the confrontation
between politics, morality, and the desire for revenge. "The
Horatian" uses an incident from ancient Rome as an example of ways
of approaching the moral ambiguity of the past. Finally, "Mauser,"
set during the Russian civil war, examines the nature and ethics of
revolutionary violence. The plays are accompanied by supporting
materials written by Muller himself, as well as an introduction by
Uwe Schutte that contextualizes the plays and speaks of their
continued relevance today.
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