Chapter 64 Bicentenary of Schiller's Birth

Bicentenary of Schiller's Birth Goethe's friend, author of historical dramas "The Robber", "Valenstein", "William Tell", The great German poet Johann Schiller was born on November 10, 1759, this year (1959) November marks the bicentenary of his birth.To commemorate the poet, Beijing staged his "The Darkness" Conspiracy and Love, another important early play of the poet, was praised by Engels as the first play in Germany. Politically inclined drama.Because of the love between a pair of pure young men and women, the aristocratic rulers and the feudal

Under the oppression of the system, he was strangled alive. Johann Christopher Friedrich Schiller, the great German poet and dramatist of the eighteenth century The family is a child of a military medical family.Although his father was an officer, his family was very poor. Mr. Schiller He was sent to a military academy to study military law, and later asked his father to let him study military medicine instead.But both disciplines Can't interest him.During his military school, he sneaked out to read extracurricular books and read Shakespeare, The works of Roussau and the great contemporary poet Goethe made him decide to become a poet and dramatist, so he secretly

Start learning to write.His first play, "The Robber", was written in military school. Published in 1781, the play began to be staged everywhere the following year, when Schiller had left military studies. school.Since the theme of this script is to rob the rich and give to the poor, to resist tyranny, to humaneness, freedom, and equality It was sung fervently, and was therefore more popular in France than in Germany.At that time, the French Republican government had The title of honorary citizen was given to Schiller.At that time, Schiller was only a young man in his twenties.

Acquired such a reputation that it angered the Duke of Uldenburg, who was Schiller's father's superior, the domain The ruler of the country, thinking that Schiller was a traitor, ordered him to be imprisoned for fourteen days, and he was not allowed to Write something. Therefore, Schiller was incompatible with the feudal system from the very beginning, so he had to flee his hometown and go to other places. With the aid of friends and sympathizers, life in the feudal domains of the various rulers of Germany at the time dead life.He first met Goethe in 1788, and the two became lifelong friends.seats

Le's life was most influenced by Goethe.His works were encouraged by Goethe, and his later life was more Under the care of the great poet.Goethe can be said to be Schiller's greatest confidant in his life. Schiller's most famous work in drama, besides "The Robber" written in his early years, is the trilogy "Hua Jing". Lenstein was completed in 1799, and William Tell in 1804.In "William The story of Tell, the peasant hero, who is forced to shoot an apple in the head of his own son with an arrow, is today It is a well-known and famous theater scene. In May, 1805, the year following the completion of William Tell, our poet died,

He was writing a new play "Dmitri Uri" at this time, but unfortunately his unfinished achievements were taken away by illness life.