Georg Büchner. Student, Doctor, Revolutionary. He wrote a medical dissertation, a handful of letters, 3 plays, a fragment of a novella, and a revolutionary pamphlet, and was dead at the age of 23. One of the plays, "Woyzeck", was in a fragmentary state because Büchner died before completing his final revisions, yet it is considered a foundational text in the history of the theatre, and many scholars believe it is the first truly modern drama.
I first discovered Büchner at age 18 in a college German class, and he and his "Woyzeck" have haunted me ever since. Here are 42 German editions, translations, adaptations, filmed performances, and critical studies, all of which I own, that demonstrate the depth of my obsession even now, 57 years later.
