Schiller, Friedrich

27/08/2015 15:37

He was born in Marbach, 1759, and was forced to attend the military school of the Herzog Karl Eugen. He studied first law and then medicine, while reading in secret and missing his parents. He had a very feeble health and couldn't use his education to get rich, but only worked as a doctor in a regiment. Because of his disire to write plays, he finally fled and lived in different cities such as Leibzig or Weimar. He writes and published, but could barely live by his profits alone, even though he has the support of several, especially of woman. So in 1789, he started working as a professor in Jema and married one year later Charlotte Lengefeld, one of two sisters he was friends with. They had four children. Living in Weimar, he became friends with Goethe in 1794 and the two of them wrote together - and founded an entirely new epoch of literature, the Classic, after Friedrich von Schillers favourite epoch inspired the grand terror. He was honoured for his work by receiving a title in 1802 and died three years later because of the failing of multiple organs.

Von Schiller wrote several poems (like the Ode an die Freude (Ode to Joy) that was later on made to a song by von Bethoven) and several historic, philosophic and translated books. Then there are stories like Eine großmütige Handlung, Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre, Der Geisterseher and Spiel des Schicksals and, of course, his most famous writings: Theatre Plays: Kabale und Liebe, Körners Vormittag, Don Karlos, Wallenstein Trilogy, Maria Stuart, Die Jungfrau von Orléans, Die Braut von Messina, Wilhelm Tell, Die Huldigung der Künste and, last but not least, Demetrius.