Essays presented at a symposium held June, 2005 at the University of Birmingham to mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller's death.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material / Nicholas Martin -- Anschriften der Autorinnen und Autoren/List of Contributors / Nicholas Martin -- Introduction: Schiller After Two Centuries / Nicholas Martin -- Wie hat Schiller überlebt? / T. J. Reed -- A National Repertoire: Schiller and the Theatre of his Day / Lesley Sharpe -- Schiller, der “Heros”. Mit ergänzenden Bemerkungen zu einigen seiner Dramen-Helden / Norbert Oellers -- Monumente zu Lebzeiten? – Schiller als Herausgeber seiner Werke / Jochen Golz -- “Nicht in Person sondern durch einen Repräsentanten”: Problematik der Repräsentation bei Schiller / K. F. Hilliard -- Lenz and Schiller: All’s well that ends well / David Hill -- Schiller’s Egmont and the Beginnings of Weimar Classicism / Steffan Davies -- Language and Gesture in Schiller’s Later Plays / John Guthrie -- Virgins, Bastards and Saviours of the Nation: Reflections on Schiller’s Historical Dramas / Francis Lamport -- Schiller and the Jesuits / Ritchie Robertson -- Schiller’s Poetics of Crime / Alexander Košenina -- Schiller, “merely political Revolutions”, the personal Drama of Occupation, and Wars of Liberation / Jeffrey L. High -- The German Identity, the German Querelle and the Ideal State: A Fresh Look at Schiller’s Fragment “Deutsche Größe” / Maike Oergel -- Schiller and the Crisis of German Liberalism / David Pugh -- Images of Schiller in National Socialist Germany / Nicholas Martin -- The “Schillerbild” of Werner Deubel: Schiller as “Poet of the Nation”? / Paul Bishop -- Schillerjahr 2005. Selected Events and Publications / Nicholas Martin -- Personenregister/Index of Names / Nicholas Martin -- Register der Werke Schillers/Index of Schiller’s Works / Nicholas Martin.

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To mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller’s death, leading scholars from Germany, Canada, the UK and the USA have contributed to this volume of commemorative essays. These were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Birmingham in June 2005. The essays collected here shed important new light on Schiller’s standing as a national and transnational figure , both in his own lifetime and in the two hundred years since his death. Issues explored include: aspects of Schiller’s life and work which contributed to the creation of heroic and nationalist myths of the poet during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; his activities as man of the theatre and publisher in his own, pre-national context; the (trans-)national dimensions of Schiller’s poetic and dramatic achievement in their contemporary context and with reference to later appropriations of national(ist) elements in his work. The contributions to this volume illuminate Schiller’s achievements as poet, playwright, thinker and historian, and bring acute insights to bear on both the history of his impact in a variety of contexts and his enduring importance as a point of cultural reference.

Contributions in English and German.