German plays adapted into films

play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German playwright (1864-1918)

play written by Bertolt Brecht

Woyzeck () is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. Büchner wrote the play between July and October 1836, yet left it incomplete at his death in February 1837. The play first appeared in 1877 in a heavily edited version by Karl Emil Franzos, and was first performed at the Residence Theatre in Munich on 8 November 1913.

1784 play by Friedrich Schiller

1804 play written by Friedrich Schiller

tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (), usually shortened to Marat/Sade (), is a play written in 1963 by Peter Weiss and fully staged for the first time the following year. The work was first published in German.

bourgeois tragedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

play by Frank Wedekind

play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1808 German play by Heinrich von Kleist

drama by Georg Büchner

tragedy written by Friedrich Schiller

play written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

1892 German play by Gerhart Hauptmann

five-act tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1963 play written by Rolf Hochhuth

1809–1810 play by Heinrich von Kleist, first performed in 1821

Hamletmachine () is a postmodernist drama by German playwright and theatre director Heiner Müller, loosely based on Hamlet by William Shakespeare. It was written in 1977, and is related to a translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet that Müller undertook. Some critics claim the play problematizes the role of intellectuals during the era of Communism in East Germany; others argue that the play should be understood in relation to wider post-modern concepts. Hamletmachine is not centered on a conventional plot, but is partially unified through sequences of monologues in which the protagonist leaves his

1913 German play

tragedy by Frank Wedekind

play written by Carl Zuckmayer

1911 German play by Gerhart Hauptmann

play written by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster

tragedy written by Frank Wedekind