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4 days ago · Friedrich Schiller (born Nov. 10, 1759, Marbach, Württemberg [Germany]—died May 9, 1805, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar) was a leading German dramatist, poet, and literary theorist, best remembered for such dramas as Die Räuber (1781; The Robbers), the Wallenstein trilogy (1800–01), Maria Stuart (1801), and Wilhelm Tell (1804).
5 days ago · „Schiller stand mitten im Leben, auch wenn er das Leben hauptsächlich durch Bücher und Lektüre erfahren hat“, so der Literaturwissenschaftler. In seiner neuen Monografie, die auch für Nicht-Expert*innen gut verständlich ist, konzentriert sich Kittstein auf eingehende Analysen von Schillers Bühnenwerken und auf das Theaterleben im 18.
May 1, 2024 · For over 20 years, Beethoven had been fascinated with German poet Friedrich Schiller’s haunting poem An die Freude (‘Ode to Joy’). Penned by Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1808, it was the latter version that formed the basis for Beethoven’s famous musical setting in his Ninth Symphony .
- Maddy Shaw Roberts
May 12, 2024 · Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 is an orchestral work in four movements by Ludwig van Beethoven, remarkable in its day not only for its grandness of scale but especially for its final movement, which includes a full chorus and vocal soloists who sing a setting of Friedrich Schiller’s poem “An die Freude” (“Ode to Joy”).
- Betsy Schwarm
1 day ago · In 1791 he was made managing director of the theatre at Weimar, and in 1794 he began a friendship with the dramatist, historian, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, whose plays he premiered until Schiller's death in 1805.
May 9, 2024 · Movement / Style: Jena Romanticism. Friedrich von Schlegel (born March 10, 1772, Hannover, Hanover—died Jan. 12, 1829, Dresden, Saxony) was a German writer and critic, originator of many of the philosophical ideas that inspired the early German Romantic movement.
4 days ago · „Das Wagnis der Freiheit“ heißt die neue Schiller-Monografie des Germanisten Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kittstein, in der auch Mannheim und das Nationaltheater eine Rolle spielen.
