Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller, 1794

A monument of Schiller (right) and Goethe in Weimar.

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 [de] 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
Germany's oldest Schiller memorial (1839) on Schillerplatz, Stuttgart
Kleinere prosaische Schriften. 1 (1792)
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
Monument on Schillerplatz in Vienna