Harun Farocki, Heiner Müller and the topicality "The Battle"

The articles "Harun Farocki: The Ultimately Triumphal rise of the sharp look" Harun Farocki deal with the fact that Harun Farocki's work against the background of the current changes in our world is current than ever, which is also clearly expressed in the reception of his art.

As early as 1976, Farocki, together with Hanns Zischler , directed two Heiner-Müller pieces at the Basel Theater, "The Battle" and "Tractor" (originally a scene intended for "The Battle", which Müller developed into an independent piece, which was often performed together with the "Battle").

These pieces are currently so current that it justifies "a small excursion" within the Farocki articles with a somewhat more precise look:

The texts of the important playwright Heiner Müller disassemble the most important myth of National Socialism - the Germans as "popular community", which goes into death for "leader, people and fatherland" - as well as thoroughly and thoroughly.

"The Night of the Long Messers", using the example of a brother couple, demonstrates the traitor career, which inevitably lurks behind every racist or otherwise narrow-minded demarcation, the scene ends with the brother's murder.

In the scene "I had a comrade", three soldiers eat the fourth, the weakest killed out of hunger, who "becomes a threat to the final victory into a comrade that strengthens the firepower" - the ideological cynicism of the saying of the justifying soldiers could also sound from the warehouse of a so -called state.

In “petty bourgeois wedding”, a fanatic warrior calls his family to “heroic suicide”. Because they prefer not to be a hero, he murdered them, only for the now logical suicide he lacks the courage. No problem, an innovative approach can be found quickly: "Where there was an end, there will be a start" and "The strong is the most powerful alone" . Is that as cheeky and Plattitüd like the "Passion" performance, which is often destroyed by existence, which is replaced by "trust is the beginning of everything"?

Nobody has to get involved with fanatical warriors, and also with fanatical banks.

In five short scenes, “Fleischer and Woman” “the normal fellow runner” first (economically) benefited (economically). Then by command from above, it is chosen to load personal guilt on yourself - and that this command has no scruples of such strength to oppose that you can determine or prevent his actions.

Because he did not want the evil deed, especially out of cowardice, he also flees out of cowardice to take responsibility for this evil deed or to be held accountable.

In his environment, however, there are only "normal fellow travelers", whose scruples flap on an equally low threshold. Consequence is that the moral insecurity of his own wife finally costs him life. You can hardly describe how dangerous fellow travelers are and how quickly fellow travelers become dangerous fellow citizens - this short drama can currently put attentive people into a state of dull resignation.

"The sheet or the Immaculate Conception" shows us how the victim of a betrayal of the greatest possible damage (here: his death) is used by the traitors to achieve personal advantages - today some victims of financial frauds feel that no compensation can be expected through judiciary.

"Tractor" deals with "after the battle", for the folk community to be moved by the leader so easily to execute the actual blood and injustice, a miserable, amputated, hungry life.

Nothing remains of the Hehren Volksgemeinschaft according to this farthy of scenes, which is lined together, the sense of a struggle “for leaders, people and fatherland