That play's protagonist repeatedly claims that to know people we must crack their skulls open and that play opens with him telling his wife Julie that humans are "pachyderms" whose "coarse hide rubs against the other."
In one of this man's plays, the protagonist desires to "die differently, effortlessly, like a falling star, like a note fading away, kissing itself to death" and flirts with the prostitute Marion, who compares herself to a sea swallowing all men.  That play's protagonist repeatedly claims that to know people we must crack their skulls open and that play opens with him telling his wife Julie that humans are "pachyderms" whose "coarse hide rubs against the other." This author wrote of a character taken in by Christoph Kaufman and Johann Friedrich Oberlin in his short story (*) "Lenz." In another of his plays, a horse urinating onstage prompts a doctor to point out "nature, unideal nature"; that play's title character is a friend of Andres who drowns himself attempting to get rid of the knife he had used to kill his mistress Marie for her affair with the Drum Major. For 10 points, name this German playwright, the author of Danton's Death and Woyzzeck.
In one of this man's plays, the protagonist desires to "die differently, effortlessly, like a falling star, like a note fading away, kissing itself to death" and flirts with the prostitute Marion, who compares herself to a sea swallowing all men.  
Karl Georg {Büchner}