The structural connection and semantic ambivalence of revolution as a cosmological and political concept puts the principle of the genre underlying it to the test. This volume examines the revolutionary drama in individual studies on Gryphius, Schiller, Hölderlin, Büchner, Brecht, Peter Weiss, and Heiner Müller as a stellar issue that, in its circular structure of repetition, inquires into the paradigm of sovereignty.

Lars Friedrich, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.