Friedrich Schiller█
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1759 - 1805
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📝 poet📝 philosopher📝 historian📝 physician writer📝 playwright
📅 18th century📅 19th century
✨ Sturm und Drang✨ Weimar Classicism

With storm and longing surging in my veins, I gave German drama a voice of rebellion and idealism—be it in the shadowed forests of my Robbers, the troubled courts of Don Carlos, or atop the freedom-loving Alps with William Tell.

Ask me of liberty wrested from tyranny, the mighty play of passion versus duty, or the friendship with Goethe that kindled the fire of Weimar Classicism and reignited the ancient torch of the Beautiful and the Sublime.

To me, the dignity of humanity is sacred, and the theatre is its altar, where spirit and sensuality strive to forge a more noble world.