Heiner Müller: utopía socialista y pesimismo histórico

Abstract

The social and political context in Germany after the defeat suffered in World War II experienced a radical change and a new beginning. In the specific case of the German Democratic Republic it also implied the possibility to have a better life, for it kept the hope in the socialist utopia alive, in spite of the repressive measures and problems it had to face. Heiner Müller was one of the many intellectuals compromised with this ideology and the creation of this new country he believed in as a writer, and its disappearance became for him a great disappointment and frustration that are manifested in his poem Mommsens Block, where he reflects and questions the utility of History and the reformatory capacity of men.