Question: Do Jonathan Franzen and Heiner Müller have the same nationality?

Context articles: Why Bother? (essay)
The Mission (play)
Hamletmachine
Robert Wilson (director)
Jonathan Franzen
Heiner Müller
Dimiter Gotscheff
Dea Loher
Carl Weber (theatre director)
Inge Müller

"Why Bother?"
, originally published as "Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels", is a literary essay by American novelist Jonathan Franzen.
 It is often referred to as "The Harper's Essay".
 First published in the April 1996 issue of "Harper's" magazine, the essay concerns the persistence of reading within the context of technological growth and distraction.
 Franzen recounts his meditations on the state and possibility of the novel form, often against the backdrop of his personal experience, eventually concluding that the novel still has potential cultural agency in the United States, and often gains it by paradoxical drives of both culture and author.
The Mission: Memory of a Revolution (Der Auftrag: Erinnerungen an eine Revolution), also known as "The Task", is a postmodern drama by the (formerly East) German playwright Heiner Müller.
 The play was written and first published in 1979.
 Müller and his wife Ginka Cholakova co-directed its first theatrical production in 1980, at the intimate 'Theatre im 3.
Stock' studio space of the Volksbühne in Berlin (opening on 16 November).
 Müller also directed a full-house production in 1982 at the Bochum Theatre in West Germany.
Hamletmachine (in German, Die Hamletmaschine) is a postmodernist drama by German playwright and theatre director Heiner Müller.
 Written in 1977, the play is loosely based on "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.
 The play originated in relation to a translation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" that Müller undertook.
 Some critics claim the play problematizes the role of intellectuals during the East German Communism area; others argue that the play should be understood in relation to wider post-modern concepts.
 Characteristic of the play is that it is not centred on a conventional plot, but partially connects through sequences of monologues, where the protagonist leaves his role and reflects on being an actor.
Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by the media as "[America]'s – or even the world's – foremost avant-garde 'theater artist.
 Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer.
 He is best known for his collaborations with Philip Glass on "Einstein on the Beach", and with numerous other artists, including Heiner Müller, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Gavin Bryars, Rufus Wainwright, Marina Abramović, Willem Dafoe, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Darryl Pinckney and Lady Gaga.
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist.
 His 2001 novel "The Corrections", a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
 His novel "Freedom" (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of "Time" magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist".
Heiner Müller (] ; January 9, 1929 – December 30, 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director.
 Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht.
 His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.
Dimiter Gotscheff (Bulgarian: Димитър Гочев ; born 26 April 1943 in Parvomai, Bulgaria; died 20 October 2013 in Berlin) was a Bulgarian-born German theater director.
 His work is often associated with dramatist and director Heiner Müller.
Dea Loher was born Andrea Beate Loher in 1964 in Traunstein, Germany.
 She initially used the first name Dea as a pen name, but eventually changed her name officially to Dea.
 She studied German literature and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
 She then spent a year in Brazil.
 In 1990, she began studying creative writing for the stage with Heiner Müller and Yaak Karsunke at the Berlin University of the Arts.
 Her first plays premiered in the early 1990s, and she gained recognition as one of the most important young playwrights of her time in Germany.
 Dea Loher has since been awarded major prizes for drama and literature in Germany, including the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis.
Carl Weber (born 7 August 1925 in Dortmund; died 25 December 2016, in Los Altos, California]) is a theatre director and has been Professor of drama at Stanford University since 1984.
 He was Bertolt Brecht's directing assistant and a dramaturg and actor at the Berliner Ensemble theatre company in 1952.
 After Brecht's death in 1956, Weber remained as a director of the company.
 He has directed in major theatres in Germany, America, Canada and elsewhere since 1957.
 He has produced English translations of important German dramatists, including Peter Handke and Franz Xaver Kroetz, along with several volumes of the work of Heiner Müller.
Inge Müller (born Inge Meyer) (March 13, 1925 – June 1, 1966) was an East German author and second wife of East German playwright Heiner Müller.