Lenz (fragment)

Lenz is a novella fragment written by Georg Büchner in Strasbourg in 1836.

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, a friend of Goethe, is the subject of the story.

Although left unfinished at the time of Büchner's death in 1837, it has been seen as a precursor to literary modernism.

The story has been adapted for the stage as Jakob Lenz, a 1978 chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm.

Alexandre Rockwell wrote, directed, produced and edited a feature-length adaptation of Lenz in 1982.