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3 - Schillers Ästhetik der Trauer. Der Dichter als “elegischer” Lyriker und Dramatiker

from Part I - Schiller, Drama, and Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

Ehrhard Bahr
Affiliation:
University of California
Jeffrey L. High
Affiliation:
California State University Long Beach
Nicholas Martin
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Norbert Oellers
Affiliation:
University of Bonn
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As a poet of mourning Schiller has been neglected during the last 200 years. The reason for this neglect is that Schiller articulated his theory of mourning relatively late in his essay On Naïve and Reflective Poetry (1795/96; 1800) and that he left it as a fragment. He was so preoccupied by his definition of the idyllic that he neglected to develop his theory of mourning. This article is to be understood as complementary to the research on Schiller's concept of the idyllic and deals with his concept of mourning in his poetry as of 1782 and his dramas from Don Karlos to Demetrius.

WER IST DIESER SCHILLER HEUTE? Konfrontiert mit der Coleridge-Frage dieser Konferenz, überprüft man als Beiträger die Titel, die man ihm zugedacht hat: Schiller als Dichter des Idealismus, als Vertreter der Weimarer Klassiker, als wichtigster deutscher Nationaldramatiker neben Brecht, als Vermittler zwischen Kant und Hegel auf dem Gebiet der Ästhetik, als Theoretiker der modernen Literatur. Meine Antwort lautet: Schiller als Dichter der Trauer — nicht ausschließlich, denn man wird der Utopie einen Raum in seinem Denken und Dichten einräumen müssen —, aber doch der Dichter des Elegischen, wie er es in seinem Aufsatz Ueber naive und sentimentalische Dichtung definierte. Wer sich darum bemüht, mehr über Schiller als Lyriker und Dramatiker zu erfahren, wird sich mit seiner Ästhetik der Trauer auseinandersetzen müssen.

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Who Is This Schiller Now?
Essays on his Reception and Significance
, pp. 55 - 68
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2011

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