Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 in Marbach, Württemberg – May 9, 1805 in Weimar), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist.
Works
Plays
- Die Räuber (The Robbers) (1781)
- Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love) (1784)
- Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos) (1787)
- Wallenstein (1800)
- Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) (1801)
- Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart) (1801)
- Turandot (1802)
- Die Braut von Messina (1803)
- Wilhelm Tell (William Tell) (1804)
- Demetrius (unfinished at his death)
Poems
- An die Freude or Ode to Joy (1785) which became the basis for the fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony
- The Artists
- The Cranes of Ibykus
- The Bell
- Columbus
- Hope
- Pegasus in Harness
- The Glove
- Nänie which Brahms set to music
Friedrich Schiller Media
Portrait of Friedrich Schiller by Gerhard von Kügelgen
Medal by Stefan Schwartz to his 100th Death Anniversary, after a sculpture of 1794 by Dannecker, Vienna 1905, obverse
Lithograph portrait from 1905, captioned "Friedrich von Schiller" in recognition of his 1802 ennoblement
Goethe–Schiller Monument (1857), Weimar
Monument in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Russia
Schiller on his deathbed – drawing by the portraitist Ferdinand Jagemann, 1805
French-occupied German stamp depicting Schiller
Other websites
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- Works by Friedrich Schiller at Project Gutenberg
- Friedrich Schiller Chronology
- "Say it loud – it's Schiller and it's proud" by George Steiner
- 2005 is Schiller year: all dates
- Letters upon the Education of Man at [1]
- Schiller Monument in Schiller Park, German Village, Columbus, Ohio, USA Archived 2005-03-14 at the Wayback Machine[2] Archived 2005-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
- Schiller multimedial Archived 2019-03-01 at the Wayback Machine combines a biographical observation by Norbert Oellers with classic recordings and video clips
- Mobile Schiller Archived 2005-11-19 at the Wayback Machine Mobile Java application containing 20 poems of Schiller