Princes, Counts and Racists
David Blackbourn: Weimar, 19 May 2016
Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present
by Michael Kater.
Yale, 463 pp., £25, August 2014,978 0 300 17056 6 Show More
by Michael Kater.
Yale, 463 pp., £25, August 2014,
“... three – the central figures at the Muses’ Court – were joined in 1787 by the young Swabian Friedrich Schiller. Together they turned Weimar into Athens on the Ilm, a nickname that pointed to their re-evaluation of the classical legacy. Wieland was a poet who translated Horace and Lucian and edited Germany’s leading literary journal, Der teutsche ... ”