Georg Büchner

The Georg Büchner Prize is the highest literary honor for German language writers, and the full extent of Büchner’s influence—from Gerhart Hauptmann to Christa Wolf, Max Reinhardt to Robert Wilson, Alban Berg to Tom Waits—defies cataloging. When Georg Büchner died in 1837 at the age of twenty-three, he left behind a small and heterogenous body of work, most of it unpublished: three plays, a novella, a political pamphlet, a dissertation, medical lectures, and letters. Matthew Wilson Smith has newly translated Büchner’s introduction to On Cranial Nerves. Each text is accompanied by explanatory annotations. The editor’s introduction examines the complexities of Büchner’s short life and how they informed his writing. The volume also contains ten illustrations. “Contexts” includes Büchner’s correspondence with the people who knew him best, impressions of Büchner from a fellow medical student, excerpts from Büchner’s diary, the wanted poster calling for Büchner’s arrest for political conspiracy as well as the real-life inspirations his novella, Lenz, and his best-known play, Woyzeck. For ease of reference, “Criticism” is topically arranged by work and includes assessments by, among others, Laura Ginters, Victor Brombert, Bertolt Brecht, Henry Schmidt, Andrew Webber, Rainer Maria Rilke, and George Steiner. Three accounts of important productions of Danton’s Death are reprinted, including John Houseman’s remarks on Orson Welles’s staging. Finally, the speeches of four winners of the Georg Büchner Prize—Paul Celan, Christa Wolf, Heiner Müller, and Durs Grünbein—are reprinted in their entirety. A Chronology of Büchner’s life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

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Drama / Characters: 14 male, 4 female Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a doctor to experiment on him, but his deeper morality leads him to a tragic end.

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 Buchner 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 Buchner's exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.

Es ist kein Wunder, dass Georg Büchner erst im 20. Jahrhundert entdeckt und zum Kultautor wurde: Wie kein anderer Autor seiner Zeit hat er die Abgründe der Moderne vorweggenommen. Wahnsinn und Verzweiflung als zentrale Themen, das Fragmentarische als Formprinzip - Büchners Texte gehören zu den radikalsten und erschütterndsten, die die Weltliteratur zu bieten hat. Noch heute schlagen sie jedem verordneten Frohsinn ins Gesicht: Aus Menschen wie Lenz und Woyzeck werden niemals Schmiede des eigenen Glücks, und Scheitern ist bei ihnen alles andere als eine Chance.

Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Autor: Leben und Werk 1.1 Biografie 1.2 Zeitgeschichtlicher Hintergrund 1.3 Angaben und Erläuterungen zu wesentlichen Werken 2. Textanalyse und -interpretation 2.1 Entstehung und Quellen 2.2 Inhaltsangabe 2.3 Aufbau 2.4 Personenkonstellation und Charakteristiken 2.5 Sachliche und sprachliche Erläuterungen 2.6 Stil und Sprache 2.7 Interpretationsansätze 3. Themen und Aufgaben 4. Rezeptionsgeschichte 5. Materialien 6. Literatur

George Duchner died in 1837 at a tragically early age, and his three works for the stage remained virtually unknown for half a century. Today all three, especially Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution are performed regularly. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

ab Klasse 11 Woyzeck geh?rt zu den meistgelesenen und -gespielten Texten des 19. Jahrhunderts und l?ste wie kaum ein anderes St?ck?eine k?nstlerische Rezeption aus. Mit Woyzeck, einem der "Geringsten unter den Menschen", wird erstmals der soziale Typus des armen Lohnarbeiters Hauptfigur einer Trag?die. Woyzecks Moral und Handlungsweise werden als bedingt durch die gesellschaftlichen, vor allem materiellen Umst?nde dargestellt. Das unvollendete St?ck wird nach den neuesten Erkenntnissen der Editionsforschung wiedergegeben. Der Anhang bietet Text- und Bildmaterialien zu Biografie, Entstehung und zur Interpretation des Werkes sowie zahlreiche Arbeitsanregungen.

"Written shortly before his death at the age of twenty three, Georg Buchner's Woyzeck is often described as the first 'modern' play. It tells the story of a poor soldier manipulated and abused by his 'superiors', turned into a specimen for cruel experimentation at the hands of the medical establishment, and finally betrayed by the woman he loves, with devastating consequences. In this new adaptation of Buchner's fragmented and visceral text, with original lyrics by Nick Cave, Icelandic director Gisli orn Gardarsson transposes the story to an inhuman industrial landscape, and fiercely reimagines the play's potent fusion of naturalism and expressionism."

Georg Büchner ist der beunruhigendste und damit aktuellste deutsche Klassiker des 19. Jahrhunderts geblieben: Weit reichen seine sozialen und ästhetischen Fragestellungen bis in unsere Zeit hinein. Aus den unterschiedlichsten Blickwinkeln ist dieses so vielschichtige wie eindringliche Werk betrachtet und bewertet worden: Man hat seinen Autor als Sozialrevolutionär gesehen und als Jakobiner, als Kontrastfigur zwischen Nüchternheit und Pathos. Man hat seinen Nihilismus und Pessimismus ebenso herausgestellt wie die religiöse und metaphysische Dimension seiner Dichtungen, Schriften und Briefe. Für diese Ausgabe wurden sämtliche Texte nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu ediert. Für Texterstellung und Kommentierung wurde die Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte ausgewertet. Damit ist eine Ausgabe entstanden, die es in dieser Genauigkeit und Vollständigkeit bisher nicht gegeben hat.

Set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, the play takes place from March 24 to April 4, 1794, when Maximilien Robespierre was in charge of the Committee of Public Safety that, along with the Revolutionary Tribunal, condemned people to the guillotine. Guillotine victims ranged from those who were seen as too radical to those who were viewed as royalist sympathizers and even simply moderates like Danton. "Robert Auletta's adaptation of DANTON'S DEATH streamlined B chner's epic romantic drama revolving around the passive, existential figure of Danton, a man who wishes to die in order to escape the horrors of the French Revolution. Auletta eliminated characters and combined scenes, but he did not change the story, omit the philosophical monologues, or minimize emotional elements. Danton's wife's suicide, Camille's wife's descent into insanity, and the contrast between Danton's passivity and his friend Camille's excitability all remain." -Ellen Halperin-Royer, Theatre Topics "It's not really a political but a philosophical play. The issues are timeless." -Robert Wilson "A political radical born the same year as Richard Wagner (1813), Georg B chner was a student of the French Revolution from boyhood. Trained (like Chekhov) as a doctor, he wrote DANTON'S DEATH at age twenty-two as a way of financing his escape from arrest for revolutionary political activity. Reflecting his disillusionment with political action, the play was finished in only five weeks, but B chner had to flee to France before it was published. He died in 1837 at age twenty-three years and four months. Unknown until the 1890s, B chner influenced such modern literary movements as Naturalism, Expressionism, Social Realism, Psychological Irrationalism, Existential Theater, and Theater of the Absurd. The first of his only three plays, DANTON'S DEATH was not performed for some seventy years. But its classic status was instantly established in 1916 when the great Max Reinhardt staged it in Berlin. Orson Welles's Mercury Theater performed it in 1938." -William Albright, The Houston Post