Darstellungsdiskurse als Formfrage in Heiner Müllers Verkommenes Ufer Medeamaterial Landschaft mit Argonauten

Abstract

Heiner Müller’s Verkommenes Ufer Medeamaterial Landschaft mit Argonauten (1982) is formed around the ancient myth of Medea. However, it does not merely revisit the classic material itself, but addresses the possibilities and limits of the myth’s medial and genre-theoretical representability in the postmodern age. To this end, it adapts the form of the triptych to contrast three independent parts. The juxtaposition of stylistically and formally heterogeneous texts is used to evoke a dialogue between them, reflecting the effectiveness of image or text, drama or poetry, the theatre stage or the written image as strategies of representation. This article analyses these discourses, which are revealed through a reading of the text that focuses on its specific, transmedial form. (SK, in German)