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Weimar Classicism
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Kabale und Liebe
Acting at Weimar
Love and Intrigue
August Wilhelm Iffland
Premiere: April 13, 1784 in Frankfurt
Engravings by Conrad Geyer in 1859 from drawings by Arthur von Ramberg
"43. A beautiful contemplative pose..."
"47. The hand itself..."
Goethe as Orestes and Corona Schroeter as Iphigenia; Weimar production of Goethe's "Iphigenie auf Taurus," 1799; by G.M. Kruas
Portrait by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1758-1828)
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, 2009
Schauspielhaus Dortmund, 2012
Key Terms
- "Sturm und Drang"
- Weimar Classicism
Sturm und Drang
1760s-1780s
Further Reading
- Schiller, "The Robbers" (1781)
- Schiller, "Mary Stuart" (1800)
- Goethe, "Faust I" (1808)
- "the essence of Sturm und Drang … lay in rebellion against finite restriction in any shape or form—literary, political, or social." Lillian Furst, "Perspectives on Romanticism"
- "Nature, Nature! Nothing is as much Nature as Shakespeare’s people […] He competed with Prometheus, re-created his human beings feature by feature, but on a colossal scale." Goethe, "On Shakespeare's Birthday"
- "I will not! Tell them that! / And there’s an end of it: I won’t. / Their will against mine." Goethe, "Prometheus" Fragment
- "here I stand at the limit of a life of horror, and see now with weeping and gnashing of teeth, that two men such as I would destroy the whole moral order of creation." Karl Moor in Schiller's "The Robbers"
Weimar Classicism
Goethe's Theatre at Weimar
From: A. Doebber, "Lauchstädt und Weimar. Eine theaterbaugeschichtliche Studie" (Berlin, 1908), plate 12.
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