Schiller, the daughter of freedom

How was the private life of the most famous German playwright? Where did Friedrich Schiller find the necessary energy to write his dramas, and poems? Where did he found the inspiration for his idea about Beauty? What was the influence of his marriage, and his love to Charlotte von Lengefeld? To answer this question, this novel is based on the life of Friedrich Schiller with a focus on the years from 1787 to 1794, but going until Schiller’s death in 1805. It is a free adaption of Schiller’s life, taking the events of his life as a general background, and filling them with narrative fictive elements. The story and tells you the story of Friedrich Schiller and Charlotte von Lengefeld. Our story starts in 1787, and ends with Schiller’s death in 1805. For narrative reasons, we settle the first meeting of Charlotte and Friedrich not in 1785, as it was in reality, but in the year 1788. We call our Story “Beauty” because of the Theory of Beauty Schiller established in 1794, serving as a literary background of our writing. The goal of our story is not to give a simple biography of Schiller’s life, but to fill up the biographical facts with love, life, and narrative elements, so that the famous playwright becomes an entire character, and his life not only a series of events, but a life with feelings and fears. We want to present a delighted, and positive image of Schiller, close to reality, but filled up with narrative elements making a film adaption possible, and creating an everlasting effect on the audience. The events in Schiller’s life serve as a biographical background which is filled up with narrative and fictive elements to make the lecture fluently and a film adaptation possible.