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From the Fall of the Berlin Wall up to his death in 1995, the life of playwright Heiner Müller appears like a race against accelerated time – a self-experiment in times of changing eras. In his play about the great writer, Fritz Kater employs a variety of textures to explore the theatre itself, unfolding a wide spectrum of Müller’s lived and spoken legacy. As the title suggests, Kater eavesdrops on what resonates in the echoes of history: The love story between Heiner Müller and Brigitte Maria Mayer, fragments from interviews on art and society from the years following German reunification, a play within the play and a monologue on life, the end and all the rest.