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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 in Marbach, Württemberg – May 9, 1805 in Weimar), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist.
Plays
- Die Räuber (The Robbers) (1781)
- Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love) (1784)
- Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos) (1787)
- Wallenstein (1800)
- Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) (1801)
- Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart) (1801)
- Turandot (1802)
- Die Braut von Messina (1803)
- Wilhelm Tell (William Tell) (1804)
- Demetrius (unfinished at his death)
Poems
- An die Freude or Ode to Joy (1785) which became the basis for the fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony
- The Artists
- The Cranes of Ibykus
- The Bell
- Columbus
- Hope
- Pegasus in Harness
- The Glove
- Nänie which Brahms set to music
Images for kids
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Portrait of Friedrich Schiller by Gerhard von Kügelgen
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Lithograph portrait from 1905, captioned "Friedrich von Schiller" in recognition of his 1802 ennoblement
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Germany's oldest Schiller memorial (1839) on Schillerplatz, Stuttgart
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Goethe–Schiller Monument (1857), Weimar
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Schiller on his deathbed – drawing by the portraitist Ferdinand Jagemann, 1805
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German stamp depicting Schiller
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Monument on Schillerplatz in Vienna