Schiller Festival
The Schiller Festival (also known as The Great Schiller Festival or Schiller Celebration ) took place on the occasion of Friedrich Schiller's 100th birthday from November 8th to 10th, 1859 and the 10th anniversary of the 1848/49 revolution. The day was commemorated at all German colleges and universities. Schiller celebrations with marches and torchlight procession took place in more than 440 German and 50 non-German cities. It was the biggest festival ever celebrated in Germany in honor of a poet. The Schiller Festival found its echo in numerous speeches and newspaper articles with a national background.
Significance for student history
The Schiller celebrations of 1859 marked the end of the reaction era after the German Revolution of 1848/1849 . The participants in the festivities believed they had come a little closer to Germany's unity and freedom. Colored and striking student associations arose in Breslau , Würzburg , Berlin and Vienna . The Schiller Celebration in Prague was of historical importance. Alois von Brinz was the celebrated speaker . In the few years up to the German War , many connections blossomed. Especially in Austria, where due to Metternich's system of oppression, corporations could hardly be formed as in the other countries of the German Confederation , the time of the establishment of self-governing student associations began, which, however, took place under different circumstances than in the rest of German-speaking countries. Another important prerequisite was the unfortunate outcome of the Sardinian War for Austria , which resulted in a decrease in police pressure, a new constitution and a liberal government. The Schiller Festival, which was celebrated in the whole of German-speaking countries and beyond, offered the perfect occasion.
Switzerland
The festival on the Mythenstein , organized by the original Swiss cantons , was primarily aimed at the poet William Tell , while the events in Bern and Zurich celebrated the foundation of the modern Swiss federal state following the Sonderbund War of 1847/48. "The sword founded the fatherland for us" wrote Gottfried Keller for the Bern celebration, also with a view to the perceived threat of the cession of Savoy by Sardinia-Piedmont to France. Many German emigrants took part in the celebration in Zurich. Friedrich Theodor Vischer gave the lecture, Georg Herwegh wrote and spoke the prologue:
"God founded the kingdom of freedom for you",
O Switzerland, only you?
His word ignited everywhere ;
The realm of the free, it has to be bigger.
See also
literature
- Ferdinand Freiligrath : Festival song of the Germans in London to celebrate Schiller's 100th birthday. November 10, 1859 . A. Petsch & Co., London 1859 (digitized version)
- Eva D. Becker (Ed.): Schiller in Germany 1781-1970. Materials on the Schiller reception. Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M. 1979. ISBN 3-425-06202-6
- Otto Elben: The Schiller Festival in Schiller's home. Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg and Marbach on November 9, 10 and 11, 1859 . Schaber, Stuttgart 1859. MDZ Reader
- Bernhard Endrulat: The Schiller Festival in Hamburg: on 11., 12. u. November 13, 1859 . Otto Meißner, Hamburg 1860. MDZ reader
- Friedrich Kaiser: The German art. Presented at the Schiller Festival in Vienna on November 12, 1859 . Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1859.
- Emilie v. Gleichen-Russwurm: Schiller celebration 1859. List of the festivities sent to his daughter on the 100th birthday of Schiller . Cotta, Stuttgart 1863 digitized
- Rainer Noltenius: Poet celebrations in Germany. Reception history as social history using the example of the Schiller and Freiligrath celebrations. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1984. ISBN 3-7705-2100-5
- Wilhelm Raabe: The Dräumling . With documents for the Schiller celebration in 1859. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
Web links
- Reminder sheet for the Schiller celebration in 1859. Invented and etched by Carl Jaeger
- The Schiller pageant in Frankfurt am Main in 1859
- The Schiller Festival in Hamburg: on the 11th, 12th and 12th November 13, 1859 by Bernhard Endrulat , Meißner Verlag 1860 (digitized version)
- Harald Lönnecker: German Burschenschaft and Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805). ( Memento of January 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Siegl : The Schiller Celebration in Prague 100 years ago, the cradle of the Corps in Austria . Deutsche Corpszeitung 1959, No. 6, p. 183
- ↑ Gottfried Keller: “Prologue to the Schiller Celebration in Bern”, in: Complete Works , ed. by Jonas Fränkel, Vol. 1, pp. 264–272.
- ^ Georg Herwegh : Prologue to the Schiller Celebration in Zurich in the Gutenberg-DE project