Michael Reichel (ari)
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller, from 1802 von Schiller (* November 10, 1759 in Marbach am Neckar; † May 9, 1805 in Weimar)
"He was a delicate child from an early age, the usual childhood illnesses attacked his body hard," wrote his older sister. Hardly anyone else created his immortal work under such great physical impairments as Friedrich Schiller. Especially after 1791, it was a victory of the spirit over a chronically ill body. This applies above all to the period of his work on the great dramas of his late work - "Maria Stuart" (1800), "The Maid of Orleans" (1801), "The Bride of Messina" (1803), "William Tell" (1804) and the unfinished "Demetrius".
The lecture portrays not so much the poet, but the man and also the doctor Friedrich Schiller with his habits, his environment and the development of his illness. When Schiller died at the early age of 45, the last sentence of the autopsy report, which was kept secret for a long time, reads: "Under these circumstances, one must wonder how the poor man was able to live so long." The last secret about Schiller's skull in the Weimar royal crypt also seems to have been revealed.
The former head physician at the Thuringia Clinics in Rudolstadt, PD Dr. med. habil. Friedrich Meier, has set himself the task of tracing the habits and medical peculiarities of historical personalities.
Admission: 5 euros
