Source
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Abstract
This famous image shows Schiller (center) in the Bopserwald reciting his play to fellow students of the military academy he was attending at the time. The title reads: “Schiller’s robbers on their first stage.” His friends are (from left to right) Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven, Victor Heideloff, the sculptor Johann Heinrich Dannecker (1758-1841), Christian Jakob Schlotterbeck, and Franz Joseph Kapf. Stuttgart’s collegiate church is visible in the background. Wood engraving by Paul Friedrich Thumann (1834-1908), after a sketch by Victor Heideloff (1757-1816), undated.
Friedrich Schiller Reciting Die Räuber in the Bopserwald (Undated Woodcut)
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Recommended Citation
Friedrich Schiller Reciting Die Räuber in the Bopserwald (Undated Woodcut),
published in: German History in Documents and Images,
<https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/the-holy-roman-empire-1648-1815/ghdi:image-2745>
[July 13, 2024].