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The play first appeared in 1877 in a heavily edited version by Karl Emil Franzos, [1] and was first performed at the Residence Theatre in Munich on 8 November 1913. Since then, Woyzeck has become one of the most influential and most often-performed German plays.
- Georg Büchner, Otto C. A. Zur Nedden
- 1879
May 24, 2017 · Thorne has taken Georg Büchner’s fragmentary 1837 drama and shifted it to 1980s Berlin. Woyzeck — played with tremendous presence and pain here by John Boyega — is now a British squaddie ...
“Leonce und Lena” “Woyzeck” Georg Büchner (born Oct. 17, 1813, Goddelau, Hesse-Darmstadt [Germany]—died Feb. 19, 1837, Zürich, Switz.) was a German dramatist, a major forerunner of the Expressionist school of playwriting of the early 20th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The story of “Woyzeck” was based on that of Johann Christian Woyzeck, a German soldier and barber who murdered his lover in a jealous rage in 1824.
May 1, 2015 · The play is loosely based on the true story of Johann Christian Woyzeck, a Leipzig wigmaker who murdered Christiane Woost, a widow with whom he had been living, in a fit of jealousy in 1821 and was subsequently publicly decapitated.
Loosely based on the real figure of Johann Christian Woyzeck, Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck is a naturalist indictment of the dehumanizing effects of the military and science on unsuspecting victims.
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Mar 3, 2011 · The fragmented play Woyzeck left behind reveals very similar reflections from Buchners own experiences. A clear observation that Woyzeck was not only based on the murder case of Johann Christian Woyzeck, but contains flashes on Buchners life as well.
