Friedrich Schiller Series

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German writer, poet, playwriter, aesthetician and historian. He was a leading exponent of the German classics and became an honorary citizen of the First French Republic. His dramatic work pathetically defends the freedom and rights of man and human brotherhood. His views were shaped by Rousseau, Lessing and the Sturm und Drang movement. In aesthetics, he draws on Immanuel Kant. He regarded art as a means of forming a harmonious personality that freely creates the good. According to him, only art helps man to gain true freedom.