Buchner: Complete Plays: Danton's Death; Leonce and Lena; Woyzeck; The Hessian Courier; Lenz; On Cranial Nerves; Selected Letters

PrefaceIntroductionChronology Plays Danton s Death Leonce and Lena Woyzeck Fiction Lenz Non Fiction The Hessian Messenger On Cranial Nerves Selected LettersNotes and Background to TextsSelect Bibliography

one coarse hide rubs against another and other astonishingly modern cynical desperate gems from the 1830s

Wozzeck is definitely the best of these three plays, but the other two are worth reading if you liked that.One of my favourite things about B chner is that no matter the social standing of a character he always puts extremely eloquent poetic musings on life and death in their mouths You are quite quickly forced to give up any question of whether this is realistic or not, and are given the chance of hearing what these characters would say had they the means to express it.It does also mean that it [...]

I started this collection of B chner s work for his play Woyzeck, and read everything except Danton s Death which I m saving for later Considering that B chner died when he was 23, this collection of three plays, a novella, a revolutionary political treatise, a scientific lecture, and a bunch of letters is rather impressive What is even impressive is how modern B chner seems considering that he was writing 180 years ago This collection has crisp translations and interesting introductory materia [...]

a good translation

Woyzeck What a lyrically haunting play It is little than fragments of story, song and poetry with an unresolved or unclear ending When I say fragments , I mean that each scene is brief, but almost complete in itself The story plot itself is not necessarily fragmented The arc of it is rather clear and unremarkable at least by today s standards A woman cheats on a troubled man, who kills her when he finds out But it is told in short, poignant scenes some no than a single line of dialogue Like Da [...]

The best translation out there of the first modern tragedian Includes all Buchner s works, one of which is a heartbreaking translation of the short story essay Lenz, the reading of which is key to understanding Buchner s aesthetic Mueller captures the frantic, desperate poetry of Woyzeck unlike any other translation I ve read Top notch.

Read Danton s Death, Woyzeck, Lenz and the letters.I like his writing but I think that his age shows Woyzeck is very good four stars for it but the other works, I wouldn t think especially remarkable But of course, my knowledge of theatre, and german lit is incredibly, unbelievably limited.

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Die Kunst, Mitmenschlichkeit zu lernen in vier St cken.I Dantons Tod wie wir siegenII Lenz wie wir alleine sindIII Leonce und Lena wie wir liebenIV Woyzeck wie wir scheitern

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Danton s Death is on my not so short list of plays I d like to stage I did a couple of cuttings from it for scene workshops and they went over well Too many plays, not enough time.

I ve technically only read the first play so far, but I ll be reading the others soon for class.

Read for grad school Danton s Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck.

3 great games drama in his short life of the great German writer.

A very odd collection of writings from some semi unknown writer Bucher has a specific tone to his work that is rare and hard to come by.

It s a kind of omnibus, but Woyzeck, Lenz, and much of what else is here is terrifyingly good My favourite discovery from those German literature classes I took.

Pretty similar to the OUP.