Friedrich Schiller - Works

Works

Plays

  • Die Räuber (The Robbers), 1781
  • Fiesco (Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua), 1783
  • Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love), 1784
  • Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos), 1787
  • Wallenstein, 1800
  • Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart), 1800
  • Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans), 1801
  • Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), 1803
  • Wilhelm Tell (William Tell), 1804
  • Demetrius (unfinished at his death)

Histories

  • Geschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande von der spanischen Regierung or The Revolt of the Netherlands
  • Geschichte des dreißigjährigen Kriegs or A History of the Thirty Years' War
  • Über Völkerwanderung, Kreuzzüge und Mittelalter or On the Barbarian Invasions, Crusaders and Middle Ages

Translations

  • Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis
  • William Shakespeare, Macbeth
  • Jean Racine, Phèdre
  • Carlo Gozzi, Turandot, 1801

Prose

  • Der Geisterseher or The Ghost-Seer (unfinished novel) (started in 1786 and published periodically. Published as book in 1789)
  • Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen (On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a series of Letters), 1794
  • Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre (Dishonoured Irreclaimable), 1786

Poems

  • An die Freude (Ode to Joy) (1785) became the basis for the fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony
  • Der Taucher (The Diver)
  • Die Kraniche des Ibykus (The Cranes of Ibykus)
  • Der Ring des Polykrates (Polycrates' Ring)
  • Die Bürgschaft (The Hostage; set to music by Schubert)
  • Das Lied von der Glocke (Song of the Bell)
  • Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais (The Veiled Statue At Sais)
  • Der Handschuh (The Glove)
  • Nänie (set to music by Brahms)

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