Biography
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), born in Marbach am Neckar, is—together with Goethe—the defining figure of Weimar Classicism and the most theatrically enduring of the German Romantic-era dramatists. His breakthrough came with Die Räuber in 1782, which made him famous overnight but forced him into exile from Württemberg. The mature dramas Don Karlos (1787), the Wallenstein trilogy (1799), Maria Stuart (1800), Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1801), and Wilhelm Tell (1804) form the pillars of the German classical repertoire. Schiller was also one of Germany's greatest poets; his Ode to Joy, set by Beethoven in the Ninth Symphony, became the anthem of European unity. He was a philosopher of aesthetics (On the Aesthetic Education of Man), a historian, and co-editor with Goethe of the cultural project that defined Weimar Classicism. Schiller died in Weimar at forty-five of tuberculosis.
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