The reconciled misanthropist
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| Title: | The reconciled misanthropist |
| Genus: | Tragedy |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Friedrich Schiller |
| Publishing year: | 1790 |
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The reconciled Misanthrope is a fragment retarded tragedy by Friedrich Schiller . There are only eight scenes in total that were first published in Thalia magazine in 1790 .
History of origin
Schiller began working on the play in the late summer or autumn of 1786. However, he was unable to complete the tragedy. Two years later he made a new attempt, but broke it off again. He finally published the eight scenes available up to that point in December 1790 in his magazine Thalia.
At this point, Schiller had already come to the conclusion that the material was not suitable for a drama . In a note at the end of the play it says: "Perhaps the story of this misanthropist and this entire character painting should one day be presented to the audience in a different form, which is more favorable to the subject than the dramatic one."
content
The eight scenes of the fragment at hand give an idea of the course of action and the conception. The focus is on the rich landlord von Hutten and his daughter Angelika.
Von Hutten experienced an unspecified mortal injury from mankind and deeply injured he withdrew into solitude. He makes his daughter promise never to marry and never to make a man happy. But she has already fallen in love with Rosenberg, who now wants to woo her father.
theme
Schiller himself described the kind of hatred the piece was supposed to be based on as "too general and philosophical" to be suitable for dramatic treatment. An interpretation is hardly possible under these circumstances. Even the outcome is controversial: Christian Gottfried Körner has suspected that the title of the reconciled misanthropist suggests that an unbearable outcome is to be expected. However, this contradicts the fact that Schiller explicitly referred to the fragment as a "tragedy" when it was first published.
Quotes
- With empty hands you descend from the zenith of life, what you missed with full manpower, you will no longer catch up on the crutch. (v. Hutten)
- Man digs clouds into the silver-clear stream for me - where man walks, the Creator disappears from me. (v. Hutten)
- Yes, I feel it, I still cling to the world. The beggar is as difficult to part from his poverty as the king is from his glory. (v. Hutten)
- What I suffered from the ignoble is forgotten. My heart is bleeding from the wounds inflicted by the best and the noblest. (v. Hutten)
Web links
- The reconciled misanthropist , text at Wikisource.
- The reconciled misanthropist , scans of the first publication in the Thalia magazine, Bielefeld University.
literature
- Bernhard Sorg: Friedrich Schiller: The reconciled misanthropist, in: Bernhard Sorg: The artist as misanthropist, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1989, pp. 58–72.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Schiller, Complete Works , Vol. 2, ed. by Gerhard Fricke and Herbert G. Göpfert, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1981, p. 1296.
- ↑ See Thalia 11 (1790), pp. 100–140.
- ↑ Friedrich Schiller, Complete Works , Vol. 2, ed. by Gerhard Fricke and Herbert G. Göpfert, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1981, p. 1075.
- ↑ See also: Bernhard Sorg: Friedrich Schiller: The reconciled misanthropist, in: Bernhard Sorg: The artist as misanthropist, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1989, pp. 58–72.
- ^ Letter to Körner dated November 26, 1790, quoted from: Friedrich Schiller, Complete Works , Vol. 2, ed. by Gerhard Fricke and Herbert G. Göpfert, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1981, p. 1296.
- ↑ Friedrich Schiller, Complete Works , Vol. 2, ed. by Gerhard Fricke and Herbert G. Göpfert, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1981, p. 1297.