Description
Book SynopsisFew writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt’s translations of
The Hessian Messenger,
Danton’s Death,
Lenz,
Leonce and Lena, and
Woyzeck.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Introduction
Acknowledgments
The Texts of Büchner’s Major Works
The Hessian Messenger
Danton’s Death
Lenz
Leonce and Lena
Woyzeck
A Reconstruction
The Drafts
Introduction to On Cranial Nerves
(translated by Matthew Wilson Smith)
Contexts
Selected Letters
Karl Vogt • [Impression of the Giessen Student Georg Büchner]
Wanted Poster
Johann Friedrich Oberlin • From Pastor Oberlin’s Diary
Johann Christian August Clarus • From The Legal Accountability of the Murderer Johann Christian Woyzeck
Caroline Schulz • From Diary Account of Büchner’s Last Days
Criticism
GENERAL
Herbert Lindenberger • Forebears, Descendants, and Contemporary Kin: Büchner and Literary Tradition
Laura Ginters • Georg Büchner—A Selective Stage History
The Hessian Messenger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger • [The Hessian Messenger in the Political Context of 1964]
Victor Brombert • [Büchner and Rhetoric]
Danton’s Death
Bertolt Brecht • [On Danton’s Death]
Edward McInnes • Skepticism, Ideology, and History in Büchner’s Dantons Tod
Henry J. Schmidt • Women, Death, and Revolution
Accounts of Three Productions
Ernst Stern • [On Max Reinhardt’s Danton’s Death]
John Houseman • [On Orson Welles’s Danton’s Death]
Richard Thomas • Wilson, Danton, and Me
Lenz
Erika Swales • Büchner, Lenz
Leonce and Lena
Thomas Bernhard • Leonce and Lena: Tragic Comedy by Georg Büchner
Andrew Webber • Büchner, Leonce und Lena
Woyzeck
Rainer Maria Rilke • [On Woyzeck]
George Steiner • [Woyzeck and Lear]
John A. McCarthy • Some Aspects of Imagery in Büchner’s Woyzeck
John Reddick • Natur and Kunst
Peter J. Schwartz • Clarus, Woyzeck, and the Politics of Accountability
Four Georg Büchner Prize Talks
Paul Celan • The Meridian
Christa Wolf • Speaking of Büchner
Heiner Müller • The Wounded Woyzeck
Durs Grünbein • Breaking the Body
Georg Büchner: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
