Schiller House Weimar

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Schiller's house in Weimar

The Schillerhaus Weimar (also called Schiller's home ) is a museum operated by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar in the former home of Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) in Weimar . In 1988 the new building of the Schiller Museum was built behind the residential building, which is now used for special and changing exhibitions of the Weimar Classic Foundation.

As part of the “ Classic Weimar ” ensemble, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998 .

History and description

Schiller House around 1900
Schiller's study and death room (1853)
Schiller's study and death room (1963)

The house was originally built for a merchant in 1777 by Anton Georg Hauptmann (1735–1803). Existing outbuildings were integrated as a rear building. The name “coin” for these older outbuildings goes back to the fact that there was an “old coin”, a princely mint , on the Schillerhaus property .

The Schillerhaus is located at today's Schillerstraße 12, the former "Esplanade", which was built between 1760 and 1765 after the old Weimar city ​​fortifications were dismantled . In 1801 the house was bought by the English writer and translator Charles Mellish of Blyth , who sold it to Schiller in March 1802. Schiller and his family moved into the house on April 29, 1802. Before that, the Schiller family, who had moved from Jena to Weimar on December 3, 1799, had rented an apartment in Windischengasse. However, Schiller did not find the necessary rest on the second floor and the attic that he rented, which reinforced his desire for his own property. So Schiller took advantage of the opportunity and borrowed the necessary money of 4,200 Reichstaler .

Schiller had extensive renovation work carried out, including relocating the stairwell from the front building to the area between the front building and the rear building. On the first floor, the family's living rooms and the bedrooms of Schiller's wife Charlotte and their daughters were furnished. Schiller's work and living rooms were set up on the second floor, the attic.

When Schiller was living, the house was painted gray with ocher-colored dividing elements. Today's yellow paint with blue-green structuring elements corresponds to the original color scheme.

Friedrich von Schiller died on the evening of May 9, 1805 in his debt-free house. Charlotte stayed there with the four children, and later, when the children left the house, she also rented out individual rooms. Charlotte died on July 9, 1826, and the children sold the house in 1827 to the horticultural inspector Johann Christoph Gottlob Weise , who handed it over to his wife. Parts of the facility were auctioned.

In 1847 the property was acquired by the heirs of the owner Weise in a judicial auction from the city of Weimar. The city set up a Schiller memorial in the building and tried, in particular, to authentically furnish Schiller's study and death room again. In the following years, a small art shop was operated on the ground floor, which existed until 1905. In the period after 1847, rooms in the front and rear buildings were used by the Schiller Foundation and the Goethe and Shakespeare Societies and rented out as living spaces.

In 1945 the classic town center was badly affected by air raids on Weimar , which also left its mark on the Schillerhaus. However, it was able to reopen in November 1946 after extensive renovation measures by the city of Weimar.

In the 1980s, Schiller's house was extensively restored. During this time, the new Schiller Museum was built behind the house. Today the house, including the attached museum, is part of the administration portfolio of the Weimar Classic Foundation . It is also part of the “ Classic Weimar ” ensemble , which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998 .

Schiller Museum

Schiller's house with the Schillermuseum behind it in the year the museum opened (1988)

history

The Schiller Museum was built from 1984 to 1988. The museum is connected to the historic house and was originally dedicated to the life and work of Schiller. It is the only new building of a literature museum in the GDR. Today special and changing exhibitions of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are presented in the three large exhibition rooms .

Special and changing exhibitions

  • The Weimar Myth - Photographs by Ute Klophaus (02/20/1999 - 05/09/1999)
  • L 'art brut - the dreams of irrationality (07/18/1999 - 09/12/1999)
  • Secret Society - Weimar and German Freemasonry (June 21, 2002 - December 31, 2002)
  • Gods plans & mouse shops - Schiller 1759–1805 (10/30/2005 - 04/17/2006)
  • Victor Hugo - Visions of a Writer (May 16, 2008 - July 25, 2008)
  • Schiller's skull - physiognomy of an obsession (09/24/2009 - 01/31/2010)
  • Quiet superlatives - Alexander Olbricht & Marcus Behmer (13.05.2010 - 29.08.2010)
  • Franz Liszt - A European in Weimar (June 24, 2011 - October 31, 2011)
  • Weimar Classic - Culture of the Sensual (March 16, 2012 - June 10, 2012)
  • Elective Affinities - An English Private Collection on Art from the Goethe Period (August 27, 2013 - November 3, 2013)
  • Gabriele Stötzer - Vibration Curve Life (29.11.2013 - 05.01.2014)
  • The painter Friedrich Bury (1763–1823) - Goethe's »second Fritz« (May 1, 2013 - July 21, 2013)
  • Cranach in Weimar (April 3, 2015 - June 14, 2015)
  • Fascinated by Leonardo - Giuseppe Bossi and Goethe (08/26/2016 - 11/13/2016)
  • Adventure of Reason - Goethe and the Natural Sciences around 1800 (08/28/2019 - 01/05/2020)

See also

literature

Building history and museum guide

  • A visit to Weimar . In: The Gazebo . 1853, p. 136–140 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • The Schiller House in Weimar. A guide for locals and foreigners. Panses Verlag, Weimar 1913.
  • Eduard Scheidemantel, Hans Joachim Malberg : The Schiller House in Weimar. A guide through its history and collections. Weimar Municipal Cultural Office, Weimar 1949, DNB 454323409 .
  • Hedwig Weilguny, Wolfgang Vulpius: The Schiller House in Weimar. Weimar Classic Sites , Weimar 1955, DNB 455425566 .
  • Gerhard Hendel: The Schiller House in Weimar. 11th edition. National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature, Weimar 1977, DNB 780556739 .
  • National research and memorial sites for classical German literature (ed.): Schillermuseum and Schillerhaus in Weimar. NFG, Weimar 1988, DNB 890311137 .
  • Jürgen Beyer: On the reconstruction of the Schiller House in Weimar. In: New Museum Studies. Theory and practice of museum work. Volume 34. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1991, ISSN  0028-3282 , pp. 50-54.
  • Reiner Schlichting (Ed.): The Schiller House in Weimar. Classic places, Weimar 1991, ISBN 3-7443-0102-8 .
  • Christina Tezky, Viola Geyersbach: Schiller's house in Weimar. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-446-19730-3 .
  • Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Jonas Maatsch (Ed.): Schiller's house. Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-7443-0144-2 .
  • Isolde Bacher, Hans-Wilm Schütte: Weimar. 8th edition. Baedeker, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-8297-1486-0 , pp. 213-219.
  • Klaus Achenbach, Jürgen Beyer, Jürgen Seifert (Hrsg.): The Schillermuseum in Weimar. A city building block of the east modern. M Books, Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-944425-09-2 .

Exhibition catalogs

  • Roman Soukup (Ed.): Myth Weimar - Photographs by Ute Klophaus. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1999, ISBN 3-89322-980-9 .
  • Martin Stiebert, Christine Jäger: L'art brut - the dreams of unreason. Glaux, Jena 1999, ISBN 3-931743-28-4 .
  • Joachim Berger, Klaus-Jürgen Grün (Ed.): Secret Society - Weimar and German Freemasonry. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-446-20255-9 .
  • Heike Gfrereis, Ulrich Raulff (eds.): Gods plans & mouse shops - Schiller 1759–1805. German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 2005, ISBN 978-3-937384-11-5 .
  • Ernst-Gerhard Güse (Ed.): Victor Hugo - visions of a writer. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2217-9 .
  • Jonas Maatsch, Christoph Schmälzle (ed.): Schiller's skull - physiognomy of an obsession. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0575-5 .
  • Wolfgang Holler, Hermann Mildenberger (eds.): Quiet superlatives - Alexander Olbricht & Marcus Behmer. Klassik-Stiftung Weimar, Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-7443-0147-3 .
  • Liszt School of Music Weimar , Weimar Classic Foundation (ed.): Franz Liszt - A European in Weimar. König, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86560-972-4 .
  • Sebastian Böhmer, Christiane Holm et al. (Hrsg.): Weimar Classic - Culture of the Sensual. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-07122-3 .
  • Klassik-Stiftung Weimar (ed.): Wahlverwandschaften - An English private collection on the art of Goethe's time. Klassik-Stiftung Weimar, Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-7443-0184-8 .
  • Ulrike Bestgen, Wolfgang Holler (Ed.): Gabriele Stötzer - Schwingungskurve Leben. Klassik-Stiftung Weimar, Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-7443-0181-7 .
  • Katharina Bott (ed.): The painter Friedrich Bury (1763-1823) - Goethe's »second Fritz«. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-422-07208-4 .
  • Wolfgang Holler, Karin Kolb (eds.): Cranach in Weimar. Sandstein, Dresden 2015, ISBN 978-3-95498-162-5 .
  • Hermann Mildenberger, Serena Zanaboni and others: Fascinated by Leonardo - Giuseppe Bossi and Goethe. Sandstein, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-242-4 .
  • Kristin Knebel, Gisela Maul, Thomas Schmuck (Eds.): Adventure of Reason - Goethe and the Natural Sciences around 1800. Sandstone, Dresden 2019, ISBN 978-3-95498-486-2 .

Web links

Commons : Schillerhaus Weimar  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schiller Museum. In: Klassik-Stiftung.de. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 44.2 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 40 ″  E