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Pre-March Era
Literature and History
After Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Europe was reorganised at the Congress of Vienna.
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Schiller’s The Robbers
A Drama of the Sturm und Drang
“The Robbers“ by Friedrich Schiller begins with a wicked intrigue.
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Nathan the Wise
Lessing‘s Play on Tolerance
Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is considered one of the most important dramas of German literary history still today, 235 years after its premiere in Berlin on April 17, 1783.
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Theatre
Effects with Language, Light and Scenery
The Munich Kammerspiele, commissioned by the Riemerschmid family as a new theatre in the city of Munich in 1899.
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Expressionism in Literature
Poetry, Prose, Drama
The term Expressionism is made up of the two words “ex“ and “premere“, the Latin word for “ to press”. So Expressionism is the art of expressing oneself.
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Goethe‘s Faust I
Interpretation and Production
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is still considered the most important work of German literature today. Even after 200 years, its still very lively reception bears witness to that fact.
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Literature after 1945
Böll, Grass, and Group 47
The Second World War, triggered by the National Socialists, began with the German invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939
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Literature of Romanticism
From F. Schlegel to E.T.A. Hoffmann
Hardly any other poem has expressed the Romantic attitude to life as perfectly as the poem ‘Moonlit Night’ by Joseph von Eichendorff, which he wrote between 1830 and 1837.
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