The Soldiers (play)

The Soldiers
Title page of the first edition, 1776
Original title	Die Soldaten
Written by	Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Date premiered	9 December 1863, Vienna
Original language	German
Genre	Tragicomedy
Setting	French Flanders, 1775

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. After he breaks off their relationship, she is branded as a whore by society.