Classic Poetry Series | English | 2004 | ISBN: N/A | 270 pages | File type: PDF | 1.6 mb
Compilation of poetry by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
Friedrich
von Schiller was born in Marbach, Württemberg in an officer family.
Schiller studied first law and entered then the newly created medical
department, but was dismissed from the academy in 1780 after writing a
controversial essay on religion On Relation Between Man’s Animal and
Spiritual Nature. His first drama, Die Rauber, (The Robbers) published
in 1781, about a noble outlaw, Karl Moor, who has rejected the values of
his father gained immediate success among young students.
Pressured
by the Duke for his ‘Sturm und Drang’ writings, he fled to
Württemberg. In 1783 he was given a post of theater-poet at the
Mannheim theater, but he lost it in 1784. Schiller was forced to give up
in 1791 his professional duties because of pneumonia and pleurisy. He
continued to write and in the 1790s Schiller wrote philosophical poems
and studies about philosophy and aesthetics under the influence of Kant.
Schiller’s best-known works is An Die Freude (Ode to Joy), later set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven in his Choral Symphony.
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