Schiller-Museum Bauerbach

Description

After fleeing from Stuttgart, Friedrich Schiller arrived in Bauerbach near Meiningen at the beginning of December 1782: Henriette von Wolzogen, the mother of a former fellow student, granted the poet asylum. Here he wrote the tragedy "Louise Millerin," later called "Intrigue and Love," of which the only surviving manuscript is on display in the exhibition.

The new presentation on the first floor brings visitors closer to the more than one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old history of the memory foundation and identity formation of the Schiller Memorial Site in Bauerbach. Through introductory texts, accompanying illustrations, and three selected high-ranking exhibits from the collection of the Klassik Stiftung, the exhibition traces the reasons for Schiller´s flight and exile in Bauerbach, his life and work at the Wolzogen family´s manor house, and his further stations and life stages. With a particular focus on remembrance history, the exhibition shows how Friedrich Schiller became a German national figure, as this aspect is what makes the Bauerbach museum a unique document. In conjunction with the tour through the historical rooms, the presentation allows visitors to newly question the contemporary approach to Schiller as a poet and as a figure of German history.