Georg Buchner

Woyzeck : Leonce Und Lena

Collected in this volume are dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast. Also included are selections from Buchner's letters and philosophical writings.

Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner DOKTOR [mit Affekt]: Aber an die Wand pissen! Ich hab's schriftlich, den Akkord in der Hand! - Ich hab's gesehen, mit diesen Augen gesehen; ich steckt' grade die Nase zum Fenster hinaus und ließ die Sonnenstrahlen hineinfallen, um das Niesen zu beobachten. - [Tritt auf ihn los: ] Nein, Woyzeck, ich ärgre mich nicht; Ärger ist ungesund, ist unwissenschaftlich. Ich bin ruhig, ganz ruhig; mein Puls hat seine gewöhnlichen sechzig, und ich sag's Ihm mit der größten Kaltblütigkeit. Behüte, wer wird sich über einen Menschen ärgern, ein' Mensch! Wenn es noch ein Proteus wäre, der einem krepiert! Aber, Woyzeck, Er hätte nicht an die Wand pissen sollen -

Woyzeck

Karl Georg Buchner (1813-1837) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Naturwissen-schaftler und Revolutionar. die Gesellschaft fur Menschenrechte, eine Geheimorganisation nach franzosischem Vorbild, deren Ziel ein Umsturz der politischen Verhaltnisse war. 1835 verfasste er nach eigenen Angaben innerhalb von funf Wochen Dantons Tod. 1834 wurde der Hessische Landbote, den Buchner verfasst hatte, in Druck gelegt. Es handelt sich um eine Flugschrift, die die hessische Landbevolkerung zur Revolution gegen die Unterdruckung aufrief. Buchner wurde dafur vernommen, aber nicht verhaftet. Im selben Jahr floh er nach Strassburg. Aufgrund seiner eingereichten Arbeit und der daran anschliessenden Probevorlesung wurde Georg Buchner die Doktorwurde der Universitat Zurich verliehen. Weitere Werke des Autors sind: Lenz (1835), Leonce und Lena (1836) und Woyzeck (1837

Howard Brenton

A revolutionary himself, George Büchner was 21 when he wrote the play in 1835, while hiding from the police. With its hair-raising on-rush of scenes and vivid dramatization of complex, visionary characters, Danton's Death has a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written. In his newly-revised translation, Howard Brenton captures Büchner's exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall. In 1794 the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Danton's fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world, now one stands for compromise the other for ideological purity as the guillotine awaits. This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads…Why should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood?

Danton's Death

This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads... Why should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood? 1794: the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Danton's fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world, now one stands for compromise the other for ideological purity as the guillotine awaits. A revolutionary himself, George BÃ¼chner was 21 when he wrote the play in 1835, while hiding from the police. With its hair-raising on-rush of scenes and vivid dramatisation of complex, visionary characters, Danton's Death has a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written. In his newly-revised translation, Howard Brenton captures BÃ¼chner's exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.

"Georg Bchner's three surviving dramatic texts show the playwright wrestling with divergent styles in a struggle to convey his bleak worldview. ...Sean Graney reveal[s] much the same process. Both artists want to build on centuries-old theatrical traditions yet shred the niceties of conventional theater to expose life's raw nerves... ...Graney exploits his trademark techniques--stark design, inflated acting, self-reflexive presentation--to create an explosive, richly unpleasant affair.... Bchner poured every ounce of his cynicism into Prince Leonce, whose absurd battle with boredom fuels LEONCE UND LENA. Leonce can find nothing better to do with his days than spit on a rock 365 times in a row, convinced that human beings fall in love, marry, and multiply out of boredom, and finally they die out of boredom.' His childish father has betrothed him to the Princess Lena, a plan that will greatly interfere with Leonce's commitment to idleness.... Since Bchner is satirizing the theatrical conventions of his day, she's earnestly trying to become a fairy-tale princess, spouting poetic rhapsodies about flowers and dragonflies--while wrestling with the realization that there are people who are unhappy, incurably so, simply because they exist.' For this play Bchner drew heavily on the conventions of commedia dell'arte, then a nearly 300-year-old tradition of stock rustic characters in cartoonish, often ribald situations. Graney transforms the genre into menacing farce, inflating the characters' passions to such volatile extremes that they often quake as though ready to explode." Justin Hayford, The Chicago Reader

Leonce Und Lena

Dantons Tod, Leonce und Lena, Woyzeck

Complete Plays and Prose

Georg Büchner is regularly considered the father of modern German drama, and "Woyzeck" was his most influential work. Beneath the utter simplicity of its basic story, there are complex themes of human motivation, victimisation, guilt, class structure, and the meaning and nature of existence. This edition incorporates the recent research on the text, and provides full Introduction and Notes.

Büchner: Woyzeck

Written in 1836, Woyzeck is often considered to be the first truly "modern" play. The story of a soldier driven mad by inhuman military discipline and acute social deprivation is told in splintered dialogue and jagged episodes which are as shocking and telling today as they were when first performed, almost a century after the author's death, in Munich 1913. This volume contains an introduction and notes by Michael Patterson. The introduction provides biographical background on Buchner, as well detail on the discovery of Woyzeck after so many years of it lying dormant as an apparently 'unreadable' manuscript. It also provides a brief analysis of the play, a study of the historical source that influenced Buchner, the tragic character of Woyzeck and his motivations, the social dimensions of the play, and notes on specific productions, and Mackendrick's translation. This is the version of the text prescribed by Edexcel for Unit 4 (Theatre Text in Context) of the 2008 GCE Drama and Theatre Studies Specification.

Angewandte Ionenlehre für Studierende, Chemiker, Biologen, Ärzte u.a

Lenz, Georg Büchner’s visionary exploration of an 18th-century playwright’s descent into madness, has been called the inception of European modernist prose. Elias Canetti considered this short novella one of the decisive reading experiences of his life, and writers as various as Paul Celan, Christa Wolff, Peter Schneider, and Gert Hofmann have paid homage to it in their works. Published posthumously in 1839, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the "inside" of insanity. An early experiment in docufiction, Büchner’s textual montage draws on the diary of J.F. Oberlin, the Alsatian pastor who briefly took care of Lenz in 1778, while also refracting Goethe’s memoir of his troubled friendship with the playwright — English versions of both of these historical source texts here accompany Lenz for the first time in this bilingual presentation. Based on the best recent edition of the text, this fresh translation will allow readers to discover why Heiner Müller pronounced Lenz the inaugural example of "21st-century prose."

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