Friedrich Schiller

The Profile

German poet, playwright, philosopher and historian (1759–1805), central figure in the Sturm und Drang movement and later associated with Weimar Classicism.

Author of plays including Die Räuber, Don Carlos, Maria Stuart, Wallensteins Tod and Wilhelm Tell; wrote poems such as the "Ode to Joy" which Beethoven set in his Ninth Symphony; contemporary and correspondent of Goethe.

A single, passionate review reads Schiller's Die Räuber as an ode to life and moral conflict. The reviewer highlights Sturm und Drang influences and Schiller's impact on later thinkers and Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy'.