Lenz

first published 1839

Lenz is a novella fragment written by Georg Büchner in Strasbourg in 1836. It is based on the documentary evidence of Jean Frédéric Oberlin's diary. An incident in the life of German-language writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz is the subject of the story. In March 1776, Lenz had met Goethe in Weimar.