Georg Büchner

Robert Gillett was educated at Oxford and holds a PhD from Cambridge. He is Reader in German and Comparative Cultural Studies at Queen Mary University of London and has published books on Hubert Fichte, Uwe Johnson, Bertolt Brecht and Queer.Ernest Schonfield, PhD, was educated at Sussex and University College London. He is Lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow. His publications include a monograph on Thomas Mann, an edited volume on Alfred Döblin, and articles on Goethe, Heine, J.P. Hebel and E.S. Özdamar.Daniel Steuer, Dr. phil., has taught German and European literature, critical theory, and social and political thought at British and Irish universities.Currently Research Fellow at CAPPE (School of Humanities, University of Brighton). Books and articles on Goethe, Wittgenstein, Musil, Bernhard, Adorno a.o.

• Rüdiger Görner. Auf Büchners SchneideAcknowledgements AbbreviationsList of FiguresIntroduction1. Daniel Steuer The Milk at the Bottom of the Pail: Büchner’s Rescuing Urge2. Burghard DednerProducing ‘thoughts by means of the body’. Büchner and the enigma of consciousness3. Peter ThompsonBüchner, Science and the Metaphysics of Contingency4. Marlo Alexandra BurksDas Urgesetz der Schönheit: Überlegungen zu einer Kritik des Nützlichkeitsdenkens am Beispiel von Über Schädelnerven und Danton’s Tod5. Peter J. Schwartz‘Guckt euch selbst an!’ Büchner’s Woyzeck and the Pericope Adulterae6. Robert GillettAve Marie: Büchner’s Woyzeck and the Problem of the Tragic Female.7. Ariane MartinSubversion der Dramenkonvention. Büchners Doppelprojekt Woyzeck/Leonce und Lena8. Ernest SchonfieldBüchner and Paine on Elitism and Equality9. Joachim Franz‘Vielleicht wäre er heute bei Attac oder Occupy?’ Theatrale Strategien gegen die Inszenierungen der Macht bei Georg Büchner und ihre Aktualität in gegenwärtigen Formen von Gesellschaftskritik und politischem Protest10. Martin Wagner Why Danton Doesn’t Die11. Elke DubbelsGerüchte: Politik und kollektiv-anonyme Kommunikation in Büchners Danton’s Tod12. Steffan DaviesDanton’s Tod, II.5: Language, Guilt and Memory13. Laura Ginters Es lebe die Revolution? Danton’s Tod on stage in the 21st century14. Andrew WebberCharting Extraterritorial Identity in the Opening of Lenz15. Jennifer Clare‘Auf dem Kopf gehen.’ Peter Schneiders Lektüre von Büchners Lenz vor dem Horizont der Literatur der deutschen Studentenbewegung16. John Walker Büchner and Real Presence: A Reading of the Kunstgespräch in Lenz17. Jan-Christoph Hauschild Büchner-Bilder, Büchner im Bild18. Christian Neuhuber Illustration, Inspiration, Interpretation. Bilder des Wahnsinns in und zu Büchners Werk19. Matthew Wilson SmithGeorg Büchner, J. M. W. Turner, and the Materiality of PerceptionBibliographyIndex

“The editors of this substantial volume, […] tend to avoid simplistic labelling and prefer to look at interesting parallels and contrasts. They welcome the former GDR’s approach of seeing Büchner as activist rather than artist [...]" - Osman Durrani, University of Kent, UK, in: Modern Language Review, Vol. 113 Part 3 pp. 681-682