The Soldiers (German: Die Soldaten) is a 1776 Tragicomedy play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.

The play was influenced by the works of William Shakespeare and can be attributed to the Sturm und Drang literary movement.

The events of the play take place in "French Flanders" and centre around a girl who courts an officer.

Marie Wesener, the daughter of a merchant, begins a romantic relationship with the young Officer Desportes, despite being engaged to a cloth dealer called Stolzius.

The play was not performed until nearly one hundred years after its publication; it was first staged in 1863 by E. v. Bauernfeld at the Hoftheather in Vienna (now known as the Burgtheater).