Büchner, Georg - David G. Richards (essay date 2001)
David G. Richards (essay date 2001)
SOURCE: Richards, David G. “Recent Criticism: 1980-1999.” In Georg Büchner's ‘Woyzeck’: A History of Its Criticism, pp. 111-42. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2001.
[In the following excerpt, Richards surveys criticism of Woyzeck published in English and German during the last two decades of the twentieth century.]
Two events mark the beginning of a new period in Büchner scholarship: the founding of the Georg Büchner Gesellschaft in May 1979 and Gerhard Schmid's publication of a facsimile edition of Woyzeck in 1981. Also in 1981, in a second special volume of Text und Kritik devoted to Georg Büchner, Thomas Michael Mayer, a founder of the Georg Büchner Society, announced in a review entitled “Some New Tendencies of Büchner-Scholarship” that the society's annual publication, the Georg Büchner Jahrbuch, would “serve as an organ for taking stock of the...
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