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Friendship with Schiller (1794–1805) of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The friendship with Schiller began a new period in Goethe’s life, in some ways one of the happiest and, from a literary point of view, one of the most productive, though not all that was produced was of the highest quality.
His conversations and various shared undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come to be collectively termed Weimar Classicism.
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The original Goethe–Schiller Monument (German: Goethe-Schiller-Denkmal) is in Weimar, Germany. It incorporates Ernst Rietschel 's 1857 bronze double statue of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) and Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), who are probably the two most revered figures in German literature.
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Jan 2, 2005 · Friedrich Schiller in Weimar, reciting to the intellectual elite of the Weimar Classical period, including the poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christoph Wieland, and Karl von Knebel, and the philosophers Johann Gottfried von Herder and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. (Lithograph after a painting by Theobald von Oer)
In 1787, Schiller made his first journey to Weimar to celebrate the birthday of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Goethe, who was ten years older than Schiller, was the unofficial poet laureate of the German-speaking world, and Schiller had been an admirer of his since his school days.
Although Goethe had first met Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) in 1779, when the latter was a medical student in Karlsruhe, there was hardly an immediate friendship between them. When Schiller came to Weimar in 1787, Goethe dismissively considered Schiller an impetuous though undeniably talented upstart.
Because of Goethe, Weimar became the intellectual center of Germany. Many great men came to live in the town. Among them was the poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller. He and Goethe became close friends and helped each other in their writings. Goethe’s fame spread over Europe and to the United States.
