Woyzeck (Drama) - Figuren und Themen - Deutsch Oberstufe Abitur

Hello, you are currently taking the Woyzeck at school and want to prepare for your next exam, then you have come to the right place. In this video we will take a closer look at the central themes and, in particular, the constellation of characters. Woyzeck and let's start with a brief overview of the themes I present in this video, first I look at the background, especially about the author Georg Büchner, then I discuss violent concepts that are relevant to the

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. In the main part, we first see. Woyzeck and his initial situation and then we come to the constellation of characters, that is, the Void Tags relationship with the other characters of the

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, in the first step we look at the relationship triangle, the voice of Marie Tambo major, in the second step, then Woyzeck and the captain and in the third Woyzeck and the doctor finally we look again at voyzech in the context of the characters and his role as a victim of society, first the background and here I do not present the complete life story of the car, only I point out some Georg Büchner lived essential stages that had a significant influence on the drama from 1813 to 1837.

I think he only became more notable when he was 23 years old and wrote a drama that still has an impact today and is treated in school as the play central. It also serves as required reading. He studied medicine and came from a family of doctors and his interest was in both anatomy and psychology and this is also reflected in Woyzeck, specifically in the description of delusional states of the voice, which on the one hand are psychological. . Büchner was very active politically and his idea or goal was a revolution of the lower classes to balance the injustice between rich and poor among the upper classes. and lower classes, was significantly influenced by the idea of ​​determinism, that is, that people are products of the conditions of their external circumstances and that those who were born in poverty in a prison cannot escape either and that someone who was born in the lower class high and has time and leisure to cultivate his intellect and this further manifests the inequality in society.

His understanding of his literature was also notable. He wanted to show the world as it is and understood the man of letters. As a historian who relates truth to reality, that is my small provisional conclusion, he was a pioneer in the representation of a lower class antihero, something that had not happened before, now let's look at some ideological concepts. which are relevant to the drama because I have already mentioned terminism. As a reminder, determinism is about the fact that people are predetermined by their external circumstances and cannot escape on their own. Another important thing here is materialism.

It is about the fact that humans depend on material forces and here also on their physicality and material conditions. Materialism also rejects an idea of ​​the afterlife or the divine, but it is about the here and now and slavery, matter and also reality. limitations that arise from it. Another concept that is relevant is nihilism. Nihilism emphasizes nothingness and meaninglessness of being and also rejects any idea of ​​an afterlife or a transcendent foundation. These concepts are opposed to the idealism that is based on it. or that it assumes that reality and morality are based on ideas and that reason regulates actions, which means that we can use our mind to determine how we act and we are in control of it and now let's see the drama in detail first of all in the voice. situations

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is a powerhouse, what does that really mean?

Pauperism, which was the impoverishment of a large part of the population in the 18th century, was the so-called mass poverty that spread like an epidemic among the population, because the improvement of agriculture and nutritional situations meant that more people survived at the same time , but there was no more prosperity and Woyzeck is or symbolizes this power and that appears very often in the drama. It is also clear in the fact that he keeps talking about himself and Marie like us poor people. There are other places, which makes it very clear how poor Woyzeck is. He makes himself available to the doctor's very harmful experiments for very little money, i.e. only two groschen.

He cannot marry Marie, although he already has a son. with her due to lack of material goods Lack of wealth he does not have money for a wedding in the end when he bequeaths his goods to his friend Andrés, these goods are a t-shirt, a cross and a corkscrew, which is all he has managed or collected in 30 years and finally also the murder weapon. The only thing he buys is the used knife and he can't afford the gun, which means he is determined in every aspect and his actions and his being are determined by poverty and that is exactly the determinism I mentioned in the last slide.

Let's see it now. Woyzeck tragic relationship triangle Marie and Tambo major for Marie the young woman longs for material goods in reality she is also poor she has a piece of broken mirror and. She is also looking for a little wealth for recognition in society and for an attractive partner, that is exactly what Tambo Major can offer her. The Tambur Mallor is characterized by its masculinity and a strong body, which is also described by Marie herself and her friend in the comparisons. A tree and like a lion here is the strength and also his self-confidence becomes evident and his sexuality and his sexual interest are emphasized.

He admires Marie as a woman and imagines starting a tambuam with her, that is, producing as many offspring as possible. He is also better off financially than Voicek. He has material goods and gives her gifts. Marie has these golden earrings and he can win her over with them, so it is not surprising that there is an attraction between the two and that they are attracted to each other. another because the Mallorca drum can partly satisfy the wishes of Marie and Woyzeck, on the contrary, it can fulfill them to a large extent mentally destroyed from the beginning and Marie also evaluates this and says that it is still a click, that it is physically inferior to the tambo majorel even in a direct one-on-one fight and here he is the mayor of the drum and is also materially inferior, he cannot afford Marie.

Give gifts and money for support. The relationship between Marie and Woyzeck changes accordingly and is no longer a satisfying partnership. Wolzig and the drum major confront each other like the thermo major as Woyzeck's antagonist. Let's now look at the relationship between the Captain and Woyzeck and here in particular the focus on scene 5. The captain is superior to Woyzechs because he is materially. Well-off situation, he has too much time and too little employment and for so long he can afford the demands of virtue from him, on the contrary, Voiceier is his subordinate in all aspects, this is especially noticeable in the fact that in the moment.

At the beginning of the scene he always answers yes, yes, yes to all the captain's statements. He is characterized by material need, constant lack of time, agitation and overwork and the immoral lifestyle of him is actually caused by the cause of him. material difficulties, he cannot afford to marry his wife and thus meet the moral standards of the time because he does not have the money for it. In the captain we see, on the one hand, nihilism, that is, the foolishness that he really has in not having to do it. He is very afraid of eternity and at the same time he has moral demands that are reminiscent of idealism.

On the other hand, Woyzeck is determined by his bad circumstances and conditioned by the material situation presented to him, so to speak, that is. materialism And that is what is interesting: this portrait criticizes idealism, because people allow themselves to be shaped by their circumstances and, in certain circumstances, they cannot allow themselves great ideas and moral demands. The situation is similar in the relationship between the doctor and Woyzeck, the doctor is an unscrupulous scientist. He is not interested in people, but rather he focuses solely on acquiring knowledge for medical research. To him, Woyzeck is just an experimental subject and he doesn't care at all that Woyzeck is physically and mentally affected by these peas.

He goes on a diet and even finds it particularly interesting to observe that he does not assume any responsibility and still emphasizes the freedom of the human being, but although he seems voluntary, his participation in the experiment is determined by him. Their poverty forces you to participate in this experiment and let yourself be exploited while the doctor says that the mind rules the body strictly, it unites you and then you can also influence your physique, with the voice trick it is clear that, ultimately, the body governs the mind and through this Pea Diet he falls further and further into madness, while here the doctor again represents the idealistic vision of the world, the freedom of the spirit and the struggle for knowledge, Woyzeck is again assigned to materialism, that is, conditionality through the physical and through the poor.

In these circumstances also this leads to freedom or idealism is exposed as ideology and this is also a criticism of the Enlightenment and the exaggeration of idealism and the idea of ​​freedom, let us now see again in relation to these characters of Woyzeck. He is inferior throughout the piece and degraded on the one hand by the older tampo who is physically and materially superior by the captain who is morally superior to him and expresses moral demands towards him to humiliate him and is degraded by the doctor because he clearly shows his intellectual superiority and uses Woyzeck as a guinea pig for his own purposes.

That is why in the end the question arises about the responsibility for the murder of Marie Woyzeck says in one of the last scenes I am a murderer, look at you and with this statement or with this question it is clear that society is also responsible for this, we must discuss the murder. If you now ask how Marie really fits into the picture, then of course you can say that Marie also contributes to the Woyzeck and she is inferior and degraded. that she is one more element in the mechanism of oppression o At the same time, Woyzeck's victim is Marie herself, a victim of social conditions.

She acts reprehensibly. She can be seduced because she is so poor that she how sexy she can be. She does not marry because Dr. Woyzeck is also being abused. He feels guilty but can't change anything. Ultimately, she is a victim of society's victim because she becomes his murder victim, so here Marie again has a special role as a participant and a victim. Finally, a piece of advice from me: sustainability is what we mainly associate with environmental protection, but it is also very important for learning. And to make her learning as sustainable as possible, I recommend that she create a mind map here.

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