Fiction Drama

Im Mittelpunkt steht die berühmte Ringparabel, die für religiöse Toleranz und menschliche Vernunft plädiert. In einem spannenden Drama verhandelt Lessing Grundfragen des friedlichen Zusammenlebens. Ein Plädoyer für Aufklärung, Humanität und gegenseitiges Verständnis – eindrucksvoll gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche.

Inspiriert von der historischen Jeanne d'Arc, erzählt das romantische Drama von Mut, göttlicher Berufung und tragischem Schicksal. Friedrich Schillers Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1801) gehört zu den großen Bühnenwerken deutscher Literatur. Diese ungekürzte Lesung enthält sämtliche Dialoge, Regieanweisungen und Bühnenangaben – für ein vollständiges Hörerlebnis.

Der Prinz von Guastalla verliebt sich in die tugendhafte Emilia und spinnt ein tödliches Komplott: Er lockt ihren Verlobten, Graf Appiani, in einen Hinterhalt, um selbst an Emilias Seite zu gelangen. Doch er unterschätzt ihre moralische Standhaftigkeit – und die Geschichte nimmt eine dramatische Wendung. Lessings Stück prangert Machtmissbrauch und Willkürherrschaft an, stellt aber auch zeitlose Fragen zu Pflicht, Ehre und Selbstbestimmung.

Dorfrichter Adam muss über den Fall eines zerbrochenen Kruges urteilen – doch wie sich bald zeigt, war er selbst der Täter. Zwischen Ausreden, Verwirrspielen und absurden Ausflüchten entspinnt sich ein meisterhaftes Lustspiel voller sprachlicher Raffinesse und satirischer Tiefe. Der zerbrochne Krug ist Heinrich von Kleists wohl beliebtestes Werk – eine Komödie, die mit feiner Ironie und großem Witz die menschliche Schwäche bloßlegt.

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