Friedrich Schiller w NRD: „Bo on jest nasz...” (Jubileusz 1955)
Friedrich Schiller in the GDR: ‘‘For He is Ours...’’ (The Jubilee of 1955)

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of instrumental treatment of the classical tradition in the German Democratic Republic in the era of Walter Ulbricht. The example of celebrations of the 150th death anniversary of Friedrich Schiller illustrates the strategies of manipulating the life and work of this German classic by the party, as well as ways of annexing the contents of the Weimar classics by Communist propaganda. The author is interested in connections between politics and literature in a totalitarian state, especially in methods of using cultural heritage to legitimize the system. The year 2005 was announced the Year of Schiller in Germany, and this was an ample pretext to recall the specificity of the jubilee of the 150th anniversary of the death of the author of „The Robbers”.

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