Friedrich Schiller is celebrated as an icon of the German cultural bourgeoisie, as a national saint. It is, however, interesting to consider Schiller in his early years as a writer, for it was then that he turned his attention specifically against the negative trends within the emerging bourgeoisie and ruthlessly exposed the dialectic of the bourgeois Enlightenment.
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His early plays, *The Robbers* and *Intrigue and Love*, reflect not only Schiller’s criticism of the nobility, but his most radical criticism is directed at the bourgeoisie itself: its adoption of an aristocratic demeanour, its possessiveness and its double standards. So was Schiller a whistleblower and a critic of his own class?
Daniel Richter is a dramaturg at the DT, but his background is originally in literature. At the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, he studied Modern German Literature, Old German Language and Literature, and Philosophy, graduating with a Magister Artium.
His academic qualifications took him to the University of Florence as part of a renowned German-Italian research programme, where he conducted research on Goethe’s *Faust II* as an aesthetic act of self-creation. In his work, he tends to adopt a cultural-anthropological perspective on aesthetic questions of modernity. He has held teaching posts at numerous universities and higher education institutions.
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Daniel Richter
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December 2026
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