On January 9, 2009, Heiner Müller, born in Eppendorf, Saxony, would have turned eighty. Fourteen years after Heiner Müller's death, it is time to ask this 'Sphinx' from the East, with her dictum of the loss of utopias, whether his texts, as he himself said, are message in a bottle for the future. For a future that is already present today?—Ulf Kjell Gür