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Woyzeck, dramatic fragment by Georg Büchner, written between 1835 and 1837; it was discovered and published posthumously in 1879 as Wozzek and first performed in 1913. Best known as the libretto for Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck (performed 1925), the work was published in a revised version in 1922
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Woyzeck (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔʏtsɛk]) is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. Büchner wrote the play between July and October 1836, yet left it incomplete at his death in February 1837.
- Georg Büchner, Otto C. A. Zur Nedden
- 1879
Oct 13, 2024 · Georg Büchner was a German dramatist, a major forerunner of the Expressionist school of playwriting of the early 20th century. The son of an army doctor, Büchner studied medicine at the Universities of Strasbourg and Giessen. Caught up in the movement inspired by the Paris uprising of 1830, Büchner.
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Jul 30, 2020 · Woyzeck originated in Büchner’s reworking the details of three case histories of soldiers who murdered their mistresses. These crimes formed the basis for the playwright’s consideration of the conjunction between environment and psychology behind such violent acts.
Georg Büchner is associated with Young Germany, a movement of young German writers who published works in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly between 1830 and 1850. Young Germany writers wrote works that espoused principles of democracy, rationality, and equality.
May 1, 2015 · Woyzeck was first published in 1879 in a heavily reworked version by Karl Emil Franzos. It received its first performance on November 8 1913 at the Residenztheater, Munich. Woyzeck concerns the dehumanising effects of doctors, the military, and women on a young man’s life.
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Feb 7, 2008 · At the time of his death from typhus in 1837, he had written an incendiary revolutionary pamphlet; a dissertation On Cranial Nerves, which led to his appointment as lecturer in comparative anatomy at Zurich; and two of the greatest plays ever written.
