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Anton Graff

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Johann Gottfried Herder and Christian Felix Weisse. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz. Anton Graff was born as the 7th child of the craftsman Ulrich Graff and Barbara Graff née Koller at Untertorgasse 8 in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Sebastian Koch

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sebastian Koch (born 31 May 1962) is a German actor. Koch was born in Karlsruhe and grew up in Stuttgart. His mother raised him alone, and he spent some time in the children's home where she worked. From 1982 to 1985 Koch studied at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, and performed during this time with the Theater der Jugend (Youth Theatre).

Adele Sandrock

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Adele Sandrock (19 August 1863 - 30 August 1937) was a German actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German film stars. Sandrock was born as Adele Feldern-Förster in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. After a rocky childhood, she went to Berlin at the age of fifteen to become an actress. Her first major role was in Mutter und Sohn by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. She achieved success in the town of Meiningen, where her first role was Luise in Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe. In 1889 she moved to Vienna, where she created a number of major roles for modern playwrights including Henrik Ibsen and Arthur Schnitzler, with whom she had a notoriously stormy affair.

1. Friedrich Schiller

Schillers sämmtliche Werke in zwölf Bänden

1. Friedrich Schiller

Schillers sämmtliche Werke in zwölf Bänden

Goethe-Schiller Monuments

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The original Goethe-Schiller monument is in Weimar, Germany. It incorporates Ernst Rietschel's 1857 bronze double statue of Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, who are probably the two most revered figures in German literature. The monument has been described recently "as one of the most famous and most beloved monuments in all of Germany" and as the beginning of a "cult of the monument". Dozens of monuments to Goethe and to Schiller were built subsequently in Europe and the United States. Goethe and Schiller had a remarkable friendship and collaboration that was "like no other known to literature or art." Both men had lived in Weimar, and were the seminal figures of a literary movement known as Weimar Classicism. The bronze figures of the Goethe-Schiller statue are substantially larger than life-size