Woyzeck

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, Georg Büchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today. Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a provincial German town, is bullied by his superiors and starved by the regiment's doctor in the name of scientific experiment. His only pleasures in life are his lover Marie and their innocent young son. But when Woyzeck learns that Marie has been unfaithful with the regiment's handsome Drum Major, he murders his lover in a fit of rage and hopelessness. Based on a real-life murder trial that took place in Germany in the 1820s, Woyzeck was written in 1837 but not staged until 1913. This English translation by Gregory Motton is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series. The edition includes an introduction by Kenneth McLeish, a chronology and suggestions for further reading.

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, Georg Büchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today. Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a provincial German town, is bullied by his superiors and starved by the regiment's doctor in the name of scientific experiment. His only pleasures in life are his lover Marie and their innocent young son. But when Woyzeck learns that Marie has been unfaithful with the regiment's handsome Drum Major, he murders his lover in a fit of rage and hopelessness. Based on a real-life murder trial that took place in Germany in the 1820s, Woyzeck was written in 1837 but not staged until 1913. This English translation by Gregory Motton is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series. The edition includes an introduction by Kenneth McLeish, a chronology and suggestions for further reading.

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.

Ständige Demütigungen und Entbehrungen treiben den einfachen Soldaten Franz Woyzeck an physische und psychische Grenzen. Er begeht eine grausame Tat. Aufgrund seines frühen Todes konnte Georg Büchner (1813-1837) die Arbeit am "Woyzeck" nie fertigstellen. Da eine Nummerierung fehlt, ist unklar, in welcher Reihenfolge er die Szenen anordnen wollte. Das fragmentarische Stück zählt zu den meistgespielten und einflussreichsten Dramen der deutschen Literatur.

Ständige Demütigungen und Entbehrungen treiben den einfachen Soldaten Franz Woyzeck an physische und psychische Grenzen. Er begeht eine grausame Tat. Aufgrund seines frühen Todes konnte Georg Büchner (1813-1837) die Arbeit am "Woyzeck" nie fertigstellen. Da eine Nummerierung fehlt, ist unklar, in welcher Reihenfolge er die Szenen anordnen wollte. Das fragmentarische Stück zählt zu den meistgespielten und einflussreichsten Dramen der deutschen Literatur.