The book examines Schiller's evolution as a dramatist, poet, and thinker, contextualizing his artistic growth within the framework of his life experiences. It delves into the interplay between his personal journey and his literary contributions, offering insights into how his background influenced his work.
Premier biographe à puiser dans un matériau nouveau - les carnets de Joseph Goebbels, publiés en 2006 -, Peter Longerich pénètre dans le cercle intime du pouvoir. Il démêle les relations complexes qui unissaient Goebbels, sa femme et Hitler dans un triangle amoureux, le rôle de confident du Führer qu'il a endossé jusqu'à la chute du régime, et dévoile la personnalité maniaco-dépressive de l'architecte de la propagande nazie. Utilisant les enregistrements de ses discours, l'historien démonte les rouages de la " méthode Goebbels " - manipulation des masses et démagogie - qui a permis d'instaurer une vie publique artificielle entièrement contrôlée par le Parti. Une mécanique de la toute-puissance qui a engendré l'impensable : la Solution finale. Peter Longerich dresse avec perspicacité le portrait d'un des hommes les plus influents du IIIe Reich, second bras armé d'Hitler avec Himmler. Il étudie l'innommable, sonde la bestialité avec l'ambition de l'objectivité scientifique. Sa biographie est étayée, sa somme minutieusement documentée. Un monumental travail de recherche qui force l'admiration.
Friedrich Schiller, the dramatist and poet, greatly influenced the development of aesthetics through his essays. He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on aesthetic speculation.Dr Sharpe's book is the first study devoted to tracing the attempts of successive generations of philosophers and literary critics to expound the works and deal with the problems they present. Surveying Anglo-American as well as German-language criticism, she illuminates the impact of critical and political change on their evaluation.
Friedrich Schiller had a difficult relationship with the theatre world and wrote plays that, though successful on stage, ran counter to contemporary trends. This study sets Schiller in the context of the theatre history of his period by examining the impact on his dramatic production of the circumstances of the two theatres with which he was closely involved, the Mannheim National Theatre and the Weimar Court Theatre, where Goethe was Director. Born in the same year as Schiller, August Wilhelm Iffland was the most prominent actor of his generation and a prolific playwright, whose early career at the Mannheim theatre made him Schiller’s rival. Yet later, as Director of the Berlin National Theatre, Iffland helped create a national repertoire with Schiller’s dramas as its cornerstone. By analysing the theatrical careers of Schiller and Iffland in parallel, this study explores the developing belief in theatre as a cultural institution. It also illuminates the relationship between Schiller and Goethe as theatre practitioners.
Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker against the background of his life.