Dantons Tod
In the organizer's words:
In 1835, when he was only twenty-two years old, Georg Büchner wrote his first play, "Danton's Death", in just five weeks. The historical events it depicts took place some forty years earlier. The play deals with the French Revolution, whose motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" still shapes our understanding of modern European democracy today. However, Büchner does not depict the triumphant prelude, the storming of the Bastille in 1789. He concentrates on a few days in the spring of 1794. The revolution lies in ruins. The terror of the guillotine reigns. The former companions Danton and Robespierre face each other as ideological opponents, irreconcilable, barely capable of a common language.
This makes "Danton's Death" topical once again. How should we deal with political and human failure that leads to a world of populism, demagoguery and nationalism? Where do we find the courage to defend democratic ideals against this?
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