Writings & Works
“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”
Friedrich Schiller is one of Germany’s best known poets, philosophers, historians and playwrights. At the beginning of his writing career, he belonged to the literary movement called “Strom and Stress” but the older he became the more he sympathized with Goethe and therefore, his writing style and his attitude changed as well.
As a consequence, Schiller can be now described as a member of the literary movement called the Weimar Classicism (1794-1805).
Schiller is not just famous for all his numerous poems like “Ode to Joy”, “Song for the Bell”, or “The Glove” but also for all his plays he had written. Schiller became famous as a philosopher as well because of his aesthetic papers in which he reflects about the Beautiful Soul and how a human being whose emotions have been educated by reason can also trust in their feelings. Reason and emotions, therefore, do not stand in conflict anymore.
Moreover, Friedrich Schiller is also popular for his several translations. He translated for example Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth or Jean Racine’s Phèdre.
On this Friedrich Schiller-website, you find some of his most famous poems including "Ode to Joy", "Song for the Bell", "Pegasus in Harness", and "The Glove". Furthermore, you find some short summaries of some of his plays he has written. You have the chance to read the summaries of The Robbers, Intigue and Love, Don Carlos and Mary Stuart.
As a consequence, Schiller can be now described as a member of the literary movement called the Weimar Classicism (1794-1805).
Schiller is not just famous for all his numerous poems like “Ode to Joy”, “Song for the Bell”, or “The Glove” but also for all his plays he had written. Schiller became famous as a philosopher as well because of his aesthetic papers in which he reflects about the Beautiful Soul and how a human being whose emotions have been educated by reason can also trust in their feelings. Reason and emotions, therefore, do not stand in conflict anymore.
Moreover, Friedrich Schiller is also popular for his several translations. He translated for example Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth or Jean Racine’s Phèdre.
On this Friedrich Schiller-website, you find some of his most famous poems including "Ode to Joy", "Song for the Bell", "Pegasus in Harness", and "The Glove". Furthermore, you find some short summaries of some of his plays he has written. You have the chance to read the summaries of The Robbers, Intigue and Love, Don Carlos and Mary Stuart.
