"Den 20. Jänner ging Lenz durchs Gebirg" - one of the most laconic and perhaps most beautiful beginnings of German literature. So begins the tale of "Lenz", the poor striker and hustler who was driven to madness. He had fled to the unspoiled nature of a Voges valley, to the country clergyman Oberlin, and wanted to cure his confused head there - to have to return even more shattered among the people. The doubter, the despairing, who has written a few dramas, suffers under the powerful poet prince in Weimar, who looks down on him as a superfather. The performance shows irony, also a parody of the literary era of idealism, classicism, and mirrors with subtle textual treatment Lenz' suffering in Büchner's linguistically powerful description of nature.
Text source and more information about this event at: http://www.katakombe.de/Lenz.96.0.html?&no_cache=1&st=44
