Works

Spring Awakening, Frank Wedekind’s well known play written in 1891, deals with a group of adolescents in conflict with a conservative and moralistic society. Wedekind ‘s text ends with a conversation in a cemetery next to the grave of Wendla Bergmann, a 13 year old girl who died of a miscarriage suggested by her mother. Her lover, Melchior Gabor, receives a visit from his best friend, Moritz Stiefel, who committed suicide and now carries his head under his arm. Moritz killed himself because he failed his year at school and he was not able to reveal it to his parents.