Basic Facts

WOYZECK

            Author - Georg Büchner

Translated/edited by Henry J. Schmidt c1969

Play Structure - 27 scenes

Cast Breakdown – 15 men, 4 women, 1 child plus “others” (soldiers, sundry men and women, students, children, court officials, judge)

70 minutes approx running time

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Genre - Translation

Brief Bio of Playwright - Georg Büchner (1813-37) lived the life of three people during his brief lifetime. He studied to be a medical researcher and was a student revolutionary, and of course, a playwright. He wrote three plays, Danton's Death (1835), Leonce and Lena (1836), and Woyzeck (unfinished at the time of his death). Danton's Death and Leonce and Lena focus on characters and characteristics of the French Revolution while Woyzeck concerns working class citizens and poverty. Büchner was born on October 17, 1813 in Goddelau, a small town in Germany. He came from a family of doctors and himself studied medicine in Strasbourg, where he also began to study politics and French. Büchner returned to Germany in 1834 to continue his studies at the University of Giessen in Hesse. Living in Germany during the aftermath of the French Revolution, he was involved in an underground society which was against the Grand Duke of Hesse, Ludwig II. One of his activities with the society

      was to pen "The Hessian Courier," a political tract that encouraged peasants to revolt. In 1835, while home in Germany, Büchner wrote his first play, Danton's Death, about the early leader of the French revolution, Georges Danton, whose own Revolutionary Tribunal was used against him by Robespierre. With a warrant out for his arrest, Büchner left Germany in 1835 due to his revolutionary activities and pamphlet writing and returned to Strasbourg to finish his studies. He received a doctorate in 1836, writing a treatise on the nervous system of a fish as his dissertation. While studying in Strasbourg, Buchner translated two plays by Victor Hugo: Lucretia Borgia and Mary Tudor. After completing his studies in Strasbourg, Büchner went to Zurich in 1836, where he was offered a post as a lecturer in natural history. In 1837, he contracted typhoid fever and after a seventeen-day struggle with the illness, died. He was 24 years old.

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Publication info, licensing and rights – Product Details

                                 Paperback: 141 pages

                                 Publisher: BARD BOOKS, Avon Books; 1st edition (1969)

                                 Language: English

                                ASIN: B001EOFYAW

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