Schiller (film)
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| Original title | Schiller |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Martin Weinhart |
| script |
Hendrik Hölzemann Martin Weinhart |
| music | Thomas Osterhoff |
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer |
| cut | Christian Nauheimer |
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Schiller is a German television film from 2005. It deals with the youth and early creative periods in the life of the German poet Friedrich Schiller .
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As a child, Schiller was sent to the military academy in Stuttgart against his parents' wishes, where he was brought up and trained under drill.
As a young man, while studying medicine, Schiller had his first great poetic success with his rebellious play The Robbers . The Mannheim intendant Baron Wolfgang von Dalberg is looking forward to further successes with Schiller. A little later, however, he was sentenced to two weeks' arrest for unauthorized removal from the academy site. He is also prohibited from writing.
He manages to escape together with his college friend Andreas Streicher , who is aiming for a music career. He immediately presented his next play to Baron Dalberg, The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa . After the success of the play, Schiller wrote his next work and asked - without success - Duke Karl Eugen in a letter to grant him his wish for a career as a poet.
While working on Kabale und Liebe , he falls in love with the actress Katharina Baumann and is exposed to August Wilhelm Iffland's envy for Katharina. Schiller lets herself be seduced by the actress Caroline Wiethoeft.
Schiller's Fiesco is rejected by Dalberg; however, Iffland promises to stand up for Schiller with the baron. Iffland's commitment remains unsuccessful, and Dalberg selects his own new piece for performance. When soldiers suddenly appear in the theater, Katharina Baumann takes Schiller with her to her employer's estate, where they both get closer.
Schiller falls ill with a fever and has to haggle over the sale of his works with the bookseller Schwan. Nevertheless, he can look forward to seeing his former friend Scharffenstein again. Following Caroline Wiethoeft's advocacy, Dalberg helps Schiller with a grant from his financial needs and brings the Fiesco to a performance.
Iffland wants to marry Katharina Baumann and forges great intendant plans with her. Katharina refuses, however. While Schiller has to deal with illnesses and debts, Katharina feels left alone by him. When she then decides to accept Iffland's proposal, she learns of his homosexual tendencies and recognizes an alibi in the planned marriage. Two years later, she married (which can no longer be seen in the film) a musician and later Kapellmeister.
Andreas Streicher leaves the shared apartment because of a professional opportunity. Because Schiller falls behind with Kabale und Liebe (Iffland gave the play its title, Schiller originally called it "Luise Millerin"), his favor with Dalberg is in danger. Schiller finally gets a little help from the bookseller Schwan.
Dalberg's favor threatens to dry up once and for all when he learns of Schiller's desertion . In a fever, Schiller dictates Kabale and love to Katharina and still finishes the piece on time. Due to the intervention of the Electress, Iffland becomes a court author, although he acknowledges Schiller's greatness.
Finally, the bookseller Schwan can bring Schiller the good news that a gentleman from Leipzig has subscribed to Schiller's magazine Thalia . It is also this Leipziger who pays Schiller's debts.
Awards
At the Undine Award ceremony in 2005, Matthias Schweighöfer won an Undine Award for best young actor in a television film for his role .
Reviews
“The excellently staged, thrillingly played (television) film focuses on the important wildly moving phase of departure in the artist's life, those Sturm und Drang years in which Schiller flees the service of his sovereign and works as an in-house author at the Mannheimer Theater tries. Matthias Schweighöfer plays him impressively as a power guy who cannot be a prince servant, as a literary bully who is disgusted by the "ink-blotting secularism", but also as a friend of the sick body who throws himself into illnesses to breathe immortal breath into his characters. "
"First-class historical drama, disturbing and instructive"
“Schiller, at least we see that clearly in Schiller , has sniffed, drunk and starved too much all his life, has not dried his socks and blown his curls and has walked around in the Rococo cold with an open collar and a wet sweaty shirt until he is himself Had radicalized poet's cold to a flu-like infection. Our film Schiller is thus qualified for an appearance as a warning example in the "Health Magazine Praxis" - but what did the man actually write about? "
Web links
- Schiller - the film ( memento from November 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on ARD
- Interview with Schiller actor Matthias Schweighöfer: Schiller is rock 'n' roll , 3sat.online
- Schiller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schiller. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .