Weimar Classicism quiz
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What does Goethe hand Schiller on their Weimar statue?
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What poems did Goethe and Schiller write in a burst in 1797?
Answer: Ballads
Why: Their 1797 ballads first appeared in Schiller's Musen-Almanach for 1798, nicknamed the ballad almanac.
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Who came to Weimar in 1776 to lead the duchy's church?
Answer: Herder
Why: Weimar's town church of St Peter and Paul, where he preached, is still nicknamed the Herderkirche.
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Who came to Weimar in 1772 to tutor the duchess's sons?
Answer: Wieland
Why: In 1773 Wieland founded the literary magazine Der Teutsche Merkur and edited it until 1789.
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What is being cast in Schiller's 1799 poem?
Answer: A bell
Why: The poem took Schiller more than ten years from his first plan to the finished text.
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How often had Schiller been to Switzerland before writing William Tell?
Answer: Never
Why: In the first four acts, Schiller followed Aegidius Tschudi's Swiss chronicle down to its details.
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What was melted down to cast the Goethe-Schiller statue?
Answer: Ottoman cannons
Why: The guns came from Ottoman warships sunk at the Battle of Navarino in 1827.
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