Georg Buchner: 7 books

Lenz, Georg Büchner’s visionary exploration of an 18th-century playwright’s descent into madness, has been called the inception of European modernist prose. Elias Canetti considered this short novella one of the decisive reading experiences of his life, and writers as various as Paul Celan, Christa...

According to Wikipedia: "Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed that, but for his early death,...

According to Wikipedia: "Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed that, but for his early death,...

Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Büchner's letters and philosophical writings.

This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads... Why should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood? 1794: the French Revolution reaches its...

Die SPD kann sich rühmen, die älteste parlamentarisch vertretene Partei zu sein. Begonnen hat sie im 19. Jahrhundert als sozialistische Arbeiterpartei, wandelte sich jedoch über die Jahrzehnte zu der heute bekannten sozialdemokratischen Volkspartei. In ihrem Programm geht es vor allem um Freiheit,...