Friedrich Schiller 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). Friedrich Schiller was the second child of Lieut. Johann Kaspar
A biography of the life and works of Friedrich Schiller ( – ) produced by the Schiller Institute in 1984. At the Founding Conference of the Schiller Institute, the Evening Panel included a biographical film on the life, work and ideas of Friedrich Schiller. This is the text of that film, with subheads added.
Schiller's first play was The Robbers (1781). When the duke learned that Schiller had, without permission, left his regiment to see the play performed at Mannheim, he put the young officer under arrest and forbade him to write anything more.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [1] >The German dramatist, poet, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von >Schiller [2] (1759-1805) ranks as one of the greatest of German literary >figures. He was a founder of modern German literature [3].
Friedrich Schiller was born on 10 November 1759, in Marbach, in the Duchy of Württemberg, as the only son of military doctor Johann Kaspar Schiller and Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller. They also had five daughters, including Christophine, the eldest. Schiller grew up in a very religious Protestant [1] family and spent much of his youth studying the Bible, which would later influence his writing ...
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) is best known for his immense influence on German literature. In his relatively short life, he authored an extraordinary series of dramas, including The Robbers, Maria Stuart, and the trilogy Wallenstein. He was also a prodigious poet, composing perhaps most famously the “Ode to Joy” featured in the culmination of Beethoven’s Ninth ...