KHAI plays Buechner

Büchner dissects a fish's nervous system and writes the French memoir that earns him a doctorate in exile.

A desperate web of ink and sealing wax carries a fugitive's survival across borders.

A weary revolutionary is crushed by the relentless machinery of historical virtue.

A fugitive translates French dramas in feverish night work to finance his flight.

A poet flees into the cold mountains of madness, searching for an anchor for his mind.

Two bored royal children flee their crowns only to marry as wooden automatons.

A soldier unknowingly stabs his mother, the infamous duchess, to avenge his poisoned friends.

A queen sets her unfaithful lover a deadly trap of treason and execution.

Galvanic current twitches a dead fish to prove that life is a biological machine.

A lecturer drafts lectures on Descartes and Spinoza for a chair he will never hold.

A lost masterpiece of Renaissance satire rises as ash from the betrothed's fireplace.

A schoolboy writes three texts on death and defends Cato's suicide before his teachers.

A student secret society swears its oath to revolution before the gendarmes crush the alliance.

A fugitive finds asylum with his beloved in Strasbourg while debating exile with democrats.

A revolutionary pamphlet uses bare tax statistics to ignite a peasant uprising.

A student is arrested as a poet writes his work and flees before the wanted poster is issued.

A pastor is interrogated, keeps silent in the dungeon, and dies in his cell under unexplained circumstances.

A simple soldier breaks under orders, hunger, and a knife.

An editor fights for a drama before an imperial decree bans Young Germany.

A materialist doctor dissects the barbel's nerves as typhus claims his body.