Büchner & Politics: Danton's Death

Quarterly theme: "Büchner & Politics"
Scenic reading & thematic guided tour

Two event formats - one theme:
THE IDEA OF EUROPE - through the lens of "Danton"

Büchner wrote "Danton's Death" in 1835 at age 22, fleeing the Hessian state prison. The drama is not a historical play - it is a philosophy of history, a cry against ideologies that transform people into cogs in a system. The French Revolution was Europe's first great attempt to politically realize freedom, equality, and human dignity. Büchner shows how this vision consumed its own children.