The bells had struck midnight when a cheaply made coffin was carried through the deserted streets of the German town of Weimar on May 12, 1805. Its cargo: the rapidly decomposing body of Friedrich ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A painstaking two-year investigation to determine which of two skulls belonged to Friedrich Schiller has found neither is a match, prolonging a 180-year-old mystery over the ...

A new exhibition at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo pays tribute to its founder, one of Europe’s most visionary and influential art patrons. When the musician Laurie Anderson was beginning her ...

Peter Oswald’s take on Friedrich Schiller’s unfinished tragedy shows Russia’s recurrent turn towards tyranny When Friedrich Schiller died aged 45 in 1805, he left not only masterpieces like Mary ...

For nearly two centuries the remains of Friedrich Schiller - poet, playwright and rebel - have lain in a crypt in the town of Weimar, next to the coffin of his good friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.