Georg Büchner

An avant-garde adaptation of the play by Georg Buchner about the last days of the Dantonists, representatives of the right wing of the Jacobins during the French Revolution. The director freely experiment with form and content, draws parallels with the present day and raises the question point-blank: why does the revolution, like the ancient Greek titan Kronos, always devour its children?

약자를 괴롭히는 사악한 사회에 희생당하는 병사 보체크가 주인공인 이 오페라는 알반 베르크가 1차 대전 중에 스스로의 체험을 반영해 작곡한 작품이다. 금방이라도 무너질 듯한 계단, 경사로, 버려진 가구들, 쓰레기 더미로 이루어진 무대에 켄트리지의 트레이드마크인 목탄화 애니메이션, 프로젝션, 영화 클립 등으로 거꾸러진 전투기, 서치라이트, 가스마스크, 전쟁터 등의 이미지를 조합한 연출이 대단히 생생하고 인상적이다. 돈 조반니 역으로 유명한 바리톤 페터 마테이가 보체크 역에 처음으로 도전하며, 엘자 반 덴 히버가 보체크의 아내 마리 역을 열연한다. 보체크를 괴롭히는 군악대장 역은 바그너 전문 테너 크리스토퍼 벤트리스가, 희극적인 연기가 탁월한 테너 게르하르트 지겔이 대위 역, 크리스티안 반 호른이 의사 역을 맡았다. 앤드류 스테이플스는 보체크의 동료 안드레스 역으로 메트에 데뷔한다.

A study of a man's physical and mental limitations. In the 24 quite harsh and grueling fragments of the unfinished drama, a body and a mind are tested as far as they can be pushed before their owner goes over the edge. Is there just one thing that proves to be too much for Franz Woyzeck, or is it an accumulation of miseries and torments of a wretched existence? Woyzeck is perhaps not so much a bleak account of how miserable life can be as how much strength is required to deal with the daily vicissitudes of life and how delicate and fragile a balance the human psyche rests on.

How much can a simple man endure until he loses his humanity?

Separated and fragmented, the scenes combine in a series of tableaux to tell the story of Wozzeck, an ordinary soldier whose only solace is the love of his companion Marie. However, the latter’s fidelity is not unfailing and Wozzeck is haunted by torment. His officers and comrades in arms do little to improve the situation. The omnipresent tension in this profoundly romantic work unifies the fifteen scenes with their complex tonalities alternating between Verist notes and the force of ritualised actions. Christoph Marthaler’s production provides an atmosphere of contemporaneity strongly accentuated by the choice of a single set, where the men’s despair is submerged in Berg’s dearly sought-after sobriety.

Woyzeck takes psychotropic drugs and punishes himself physically. He has no choice. It's his living. With what he earns selling his body and by working in a restaurant and in subway tunnels, he just about makes ends meet. Coming home to his wife Marie and his infant child, he’s an impotent wreck -- and definitely unable to afford the earrings he sees Marie wearing one day. She’s frustrated and the jewelry is a gift from the local pimp. Woyzeck wasn't supposed to find out. But he has. Plagued by voices, he loses his already weak grip on reality. He retreats into the tunnels with Marie and the baby. There Woyzeck is the master of life and death.

The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges to research the story behind Georg Büchner's novel fragment Lenz. But he soon trades the Alsatian landscape for higher altitudes and more emotional territory: a reunion with his estranged wife Natalie and their son Noah in the Swiss Alps. Like his literary counterpart, the modern-day Lenz follows the Romantic motto: Genius writes its own rules. Against a background of kitsch global tourism - provided by the authentic Zermatt locations - Thomas Imbach's Lenz portrays an unconventional family and a man struggling between euphoria and desperation.

Calixto Bieito's controversial but visually stunning production of Wozzeck is set in a grisly, chaotic, post-industrial maze, giving a contemporary edge to the disturbing and hair-raising intensity of Alban Berg's expressionistic masterpiece.

Wozzeck by Alban Berg performed with the Frankfurter Museumorchester.

Lajos Kovács (WINGS OF DESIRE) stars as the misused Woyzeck, who ekes out a miserable existence sweeping train tracks, running errands for a bullying army captain and acting as a human guinea pig for a local doctor with ideas about free will. When his common-law wife begins an affair with a local cop, Woyzeck's pocket Bible and near-starvation diet point him on a downward spiral of twisted redemption.

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the father of an illegitimate child by his mistress Marie.

1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner's 1837 play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck details the harsh existence of the title character, a former soldier in the German army who has to struggle mightily to make a living, even as others around him prosper.

19세기 중엽 군대 주둔지인 소도시의 말단 군인인 프란츠 보이체크(Woyzeck: 클라우스 킨스키 분)는 그의 애인인 마리와 그들 사이에 태어난 아이를 먹여살리느라 애를 쓴다. 군대의 봉급은 작고 상사들은 저질에 야만적이다. 보이체크는 결혼도 하지 않고 아이를 가진 자신을 비난하는 대위를 면도해준다. 의사는 그를 의학실험대상으로 삼는 대신 돈을 더 많이 주겠다고 약속한다. 아이를 쳐다볼 시간조차 없는 보이체크는 언제나 업무에 쫓긴다. 그의 애인 마리는 멋쟁이 군악대장과 놀아나고 이사실을 알게 된 보이체크는 마리를 칼로 찔러 살해하고 자신은 물에 빠져 죽는다.

Danton 's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Biichner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, the leaders of the extremists, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on ' the wild horses of the Revolution.'

Alban Berg's disturbing opera masterfully translated into film.

A political metaphor based on Karl Buchner's "Woyzeck": a simpleminded mailman ends up committing a murder.

While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates humanity for having allowed Wozzeck’s fate. The tragic story unfolds in flashbacks, as Büchner narrates.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.