Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
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Shiller and the Yina Set
I find Shiller kind of problematic to be honest so in Germany there's always this kind of question like are you Team Gerta or Team Shiller I'm definitely Team GertA because Shiller he's such an interesting character. When you start reading his letters you realize that a lot of decisions he makes he makes for money which as a writer I can maybe sometimes understand. He realizes after his great success with Valensheim which is his really big first play after a long while that he can make more money with that than with his philosophic writing. So I might not be the best person to judge Shiller but I thought when I was listening there I was wondering if we should
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