Georg Büchner

This collection of Büchner's three theatrical works includes Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution, Leonce and Lena, his "black" romantic comedy and Woyzeck, the unfinished work on which Alban Berg based his famous opera. All three works remained virtually unknown for half a century but today have …

Leonce and Lena is a play by Georg Büchner which is considered a comedy, but is actually a satire veiled in humor. It was written in the spring of 1836 for a competition 'for the best one- or two-act comedy in prose or verse' sponsored by the Stuttgart publisher Cotta. However, Büchner missed the submission deadline …

Lenz is a novella fragment written by Georg Büchner in Strasbourg in 1836. It is based on the documentary evidence of Jean Frédéric Oberlin's diary. Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, a friend of Goethe, is the subject of the story. In March 1776 he met Goethe in Weimar. Later he suffered from mental disorder and was sent …

Danton's Death was the first play written by Georg Büchner, set during the French Revolution.

Woyzeck on Georg Büchnerin vuosina 1836–1837 kirjoittama näytelmä. Woyzeck on tarina miehestä, Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeckista, joka on keskellä elämän myllerrystä. Hänellä on tyttöystävä Marie, ja heillä on yhteinen lapsi. Woyzeck on köyhä ja tämän vuoksi toimii koekaniinina tohtorille, joka suorittaa …