in the Ravensbrück concentration camp where Abwehr documents
continued to be delivered for processing, Moltke did not face pros-
ecution until after the abortive assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler
on 20 July 1944. Found guilty of treason based on his Christian be-
liefs rather than his tenuous links to the conspiracy, he was hanged
on 23 January 1945 at Plötzensee Prison.MOYZISCH, LUDWIG. See CICERO AFFAIR.
MUELLER-STAHL, ARMIN (1930– ). An actor and hero of a popu-
lar television espionage series in the German Democratic Republic
(GDR), Armin Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit (now Sovetsk, Rus-
sia) on 17 December 1930, the son of an East Prussian bank official.
Abandoning a career as a musician, he became an actor and appeared
in several important East German films during the 1960s. In 1972,
Mueller-Stahl was selected to play the role of Werner Bredebusch in
the highly successful television series Das unsichtbare Visier (The
Invisible Visor). As an officer of the Ministerium für Staatssicher-
heit (MfS), Bredebush (alias Achim Detjen) worked undercover in
the Federal Republic of Germany, exposing the attempts of leading
Nazis to flee to South America and the plans of the government to
build nuclear weapons.
Yet because Mueller-Stahl signed a petition objecting to the ex-
patriation of Wolf Biermann in late 1976, the series replaced him
with Horst Schulze, and new roles never materialized. In 1980, his
request to move to West Berlin was approved, and his high-profile
career resumed without difficulty. The MfS also maintained a file on
Mueller-Stahl, having enlisted one of his closest friends in the GDR
as an informant.
MÜLLER, HEINER (1929–1995). A renowned East German writer
who maintained contact with the Ministerium für Staatssicher-
heit (MfS), Heiner Müller was born in Eppendorf (Saxony) on
9 January 1929. A protégé of Bertolt Brecht, he began his liter-
ary career in the 1950s and ultimately achieved recognition as a
dramatist, poet, essayist, and theater director. Although his base
was East Berlin, a number of his most famous plays premiered
in the Federal Republic of Germany. A committed communist,
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