Ernst Stern
Four stage sets from “Danton’s Death”
1916
(Production by Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, 1916)
Pen and ink
Theater Studies Collection of the University of Cologne
After attending the play in December 1916, Käthe Kollwitz wrote in her diary: “Very powerful. Final scene: the guillotine on the Place de la Bastille. Two drunken servants sweep the blood from the steps and leave, bawling. The triumph of madness.”