A Bizarre Cue That Inspired Friedrich Schiller to Write

No one will want to repeat it nowadays, but it works.

The monuments of Goethe and Schiller. Image credit: senorcampesino on Istock photos. Image edited in Fotor

Friedrich Schiller is one of the legends of German 18th-century literature.

He is an artist, poet, writer, philosopher, historian, and romantic playwriter remembered primarily after his “An die Freude” (Ode to Joy). It was set to music by Beethoven in his…