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The text of Dantons Tod's Drama is a literary work that presents the practice of Hegemony and Culture. The event studied is Cultural Hegemony. The background of the French revolution presents two revolutionary leaders named Danton and Robiespierre. Robiespierre acts as the dominating party and Dantons as his political opponent as the dominated party. This study uses a qualitative method to describe Antonio Gramsci's theory of Hegemony found in the text of the play Dantons Tod by Georg Büchner. The results of the study indicate that the discovery of 5 key concepts of cultural hegemony from Dantons Tod's Drama Script including Hegemony, Agreement and Consensus, Domination, Intellectuals, Language and Ideology. The concept of hegemony consists of 5 data consisting of 5dialogue quotes written by Georg Büchner. This study uses data collection techniques, namely reading techniques and note-taking techniques by researching, understanding and classifying them. Then, qualitative descriptive data analysis techniques identify, classify and draw conclusions. This research makes legitimacy fall to the dominant party, namely Robiespierre. The actions of this character and his group gain victory on the basis of the authority, power of each character contained in Dantons Tod's drama script. Based on Gramsci's theory of hegemony, it shows the form of hegemony of every leader and ruler in obtaining his power and how the life of the French people is when hegemonized by the ruling class. Gramsci's theory of hegemony is part of the research foundation.

The very fast spread of the contagious disease COVID-19 and the increasing number of confirmed positive numbers and mortality rates make it a very sensitive issue and a world concern. Therefore, the delivery of information related to Corona-Pandemie receives special attention to the public. Thus, the use of euphemisms in conveying this information by the authorities, in this case the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany or political actors, is often used to control public opinion and maintain their political image in dealing with the issue. Based on this background, this study attempts to classify how the form and function of euphemisms are used by the German"s Government press conference regarding corona pandemic which was delivered by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on March 11 and 16 2020. This study aims to determine the form and function of using euphemisms, especially in public communication conducted by Angela Merkel. This research is a qualitative research using descriptive methods and is based on a combination of Schröder's (1999) and Luchtenberg in Schröder's (1999) euphemism theory. The results of this study indicate that there are 23 euphemisms manifested in 5 forms of euphemism realization in Angela Merkel's official statement, namely: (1) vage oder mehrdeutige Ausdrücke; (2) Ausslasungen; (3) Hinzufügen von Wörtern; (4) Verralgemeinerungen; and (5) Leerformeln. Reaslization of euphemisms is mostly found to have a function to disguise (verschleiernd) or describe something so that it sounds better than it really is. The use of the verschleiernd function in the realization of the euphemism is manifested as a form of prudence in speaking.