“The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.”
The Hessian Courier (1834)
Karl Georg Büchner német drámaíró, a német realista drámairodalom meghatározó alakja. Schöpflin Aladár méltatása szerint: „Nagy intelligencia volt és született drámaíró, Kleist mellett a másik torzója a német irodalomnak.” Wikipedia
“The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.”
The Hessian Courier (1834)
“How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?”
Act I.
Leonce and Lena (1838)
“There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”
The Hessian Courier (1834)
“The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.”
Act IV.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)