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2 unusual facts about Leonce and Lena


Cenap Samet

Samet has acted in more than 20 plays including: La Dame de chez Maxim (as Faik), Storm (as Trinculo – Stephano), Noises Off (as Loyd), Poor Women (as Apo), Leonce and Lena (as King Peter), Romeo & Juliet (as Capulet (member of all family)), Waiting for Godot (as Pozzo) and others.

Leonce and Lena

It was premiered almost 60 years later, on May 31, 1895, in an outdoor performance by the Munich Company Intimes Theater, directed by Ernst von Wolzogen and with the involvement of Max Halbe and Oskar Panizza, illustrating the fact that Büchner only gained prominence as a writer in the 20th century.


Nicolas Stemann

The first time he received national attention was through the production of his Trilogy of Terror in 1997 at Kampnagel in Hamburg and Hoftheater Gostner in Nuremberg (Antigone by Sophocles, The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner).


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Karl Emil Franzos

Franzos completed his edition in 1879, including plays like Danton's Death and Leonce and Lena.