antw. schiller

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Betsy - schrieb:

> When looking at my syllabus for phil. class, I was surprised to see that we 
> were reading Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man...He's constantly 
> mentioned in Dostoevsky and 1 of Heisenberg's books, and I thought it was 
> strange that I had never heard of him until I had read Dostoevsky and 
> Heisenberg (a few months ago)...Is he well known? What do you guys think of 
> him?


  well, next to goethe friedrich schiller is the most canonized classical german 
  author: schools, concert halls, streets are named after him here. he earned   
  his money as a professor for history. when he lacked inspiration while writing 
  schiller used to smell at a rotten apple which was always placed on his desk. 
  all of his essays are truly great, and i also like most of his plays. just now 
  it would be the right thing to bring "wallenstein" on stage ... kai *