Readings and Agenda - Week 4
Readings and Agenda - Week 4
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"Woyzeck", the play by Georg Büchner.
Please read the entire play in preparation for class discussion.
Supplementary Material
Woyzeck (55 pages) A translation from the International British education and examination board Edexcel. It has a different arrangement of scenes than the translation we are using for the course, as well as some other changes. It gives some idea of the variety of possible interpretations of the play's fragments.
Woyzeck: A literary Timebomb (4 pages) A very good article about the place of Büchner's Woyzeck in literary history.
Georg Büchner (1813 - 1837)
Johann Christian Woyzeck (1780-1824)
Historical context and analysis of the play, in three YouTube videos by Anna Kamaralli (added 10/24/2025):
Woyzeck Part 1 of 3 (26:14)
Woyzeck Part 2 of 3 (26:16)
Woyzeck Part 3 of 3 (27:33)
On the right: Book cover of "The Fairy Tale of the World" (Das Märchen von der Welt), the sad story of a child all alone in the world as told by the grandmother in Woyzeck, illustrated like a child's fairy tale.
Below: pictures of pages of Büchner's hand-written manuscript H1 - H4
Updated October24, 2025
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