Die Abwesenheit des Protagonisten und sein Schattenbild in "Wallensteins Lager" von Friedrich Schiller
Die Abwesenheit des Protagonisten und sein Schattenbild in "Wallensteins Lager" von Friedrich Schiller

Summary/Abstract: Schiller’s drama Wallensteins Lager („Wallenstein’s Camp“) delineates the profile of the protagonist by means of his absence. The tragic fate of Wallenstein: treason, loss of control over the army and his sudden death have been presented in the play not through a real character of the general but through his shadow in the camp. The shadow of the main hero changes the rumours circulating in everyday life of the camp into the truth, and the truth into history. The article studies the role of the shadow of the real protagonist and explains Schiller’s notion of subjectivism based on moral concepts borrowed from Kant’s philosophy.

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