“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Karl Georg Büchner fue un dramaturgo alemán y escritor de prosa. Era hijo del químico y médico forense Ernst Büchner, así como hermano del físico y filósofo Ludwig Büchner. El talento de Büchner es generalmente tenido en gran estima tanto en Alemania como en el extranjero y sus obras se representan con frecuencia. Se considera que, de no haber muerto tan joven, hubiese adquirido la importancia de Goethe y Schiller. Wikipedia

“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act IV.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Murder begins where self-defense ends.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people’s body.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act IV
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.”
Georg Büchner The Hessian Courier
The Hessian Courier (1834)
“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act III.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.”
Georg Büchner The Hessian Courier
The Hessian Courier (1834)
“The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Georg Büchner Leonce and Lena
Act II.
Leonce and Lena (1838)
“Your words smell of corpses.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Georg Büchner Leonce and Lena
Und müden Augen jedes Licht zu scharf, und müden Lippen jeder Hauch zu schwer, Lächelnd. und müden Ohren jedes Wort zu viel.
Act II.
Leonce and Lena (1838)
Georg Büchner Leonce and Lena
Act III
Leonce and Lena (1838)
“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Dying people often become childish”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.”
Georg Büchner Danton's Death
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)