
Person
Friedrich Schiller
Writing
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Nov 10, 1759
- Died
- May 9, 1805
- From
- Marbach am Neckar, Germany
Friedrich Schiller was born on Nov. 10, 1759, in Marbach, Germany. His father was an army doctor. Growing up in a very poor environment, Schiller eventually managed to get the support of a wealthy duke that enabled him to study medicine. He served as a military doctor first, but through the efforts of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe he finally went to Jena and Weimar, where he died on the May 9, 1805. Schiller is an important German author of his time, most famous for his stage plays. They were highly acclaimed--and mostly forbidden, because of their contents. His first big work, "Die Räuber", dealt with the revolt of sons against their parents and environment, a very modern topic for the time and one that was not accepted in many regions of Germany. Overall, though, he is underrated as an author due to the fact that he lived and wrote in the same time as Goethe: Schiller is considered to be a good writer, but not as brilliant as Goethe. IMDb Mini Biography By: Benjamin Stello (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlos

Tod oder Freiheit
Kabale und Liebe

Giovanna D'Arco
Marie Stuartovna

Giovanna d'Arco

Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
Úklady a láska
Die Verschwörung zu Genua

William Tell
Zbojníci

Die Räuber

The Story of William Tell

Don Carlo

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo

Guglielmo Tell

Verdi: Don Carlo

Verdi: Don Carlo