Friedrich Schiller’s Anatomy of Power – With Particular Reference to Don Carlos

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One will have to begin creating citizens for the constitution before one can give the citizens a constitution«, thus argued the deeply republican-thinking Friedrich Schiller in a letter dated 13 th July 1793 to his aristocratic benefactor, Prince Frederick Christian of Holstein-Augustenburg. 1 By then it had become clear that the French Revolution would come close to ending in carnage as it betrayed its originally foremost concern, to secure the freedom of the people and establish fraternity amongst them on the basis of equal rights for all.Since August 1792 Schiller was honorary citizen of the French Republic but he increasingly mistrusted the way in which the revolution handled the people's power it had unleashed.In fact, the dramatist and author of ground-breaking plays like The Robbers, Intrigue and Love, Fiesco, and Don Carlos had turned into a historian and philosopher with works on the liberation of the Low Countries from Spanish rule, the history of the Thirty-Years War and the meaning of what he termed ›universal history‹.Moreover, he developed an actual programme for the aesthetic education of Man.Creating citizens meant to him educating them in the direction of intensified sensitivity by means of making them aware of beauty, grace and human dignity.It is telling that Schiller had enclosed with his This ar ticle is based on a keynote given at the Schiller fest UK 2017 on 6 th November at The Bunker Theatre in Southwark, London. 1 | »Man wird damit anfangen müssen für die Verfassung Bürger zu erschaffen, ehe man den Bürgern eine Verfassung geben kann.«In: Friedrich Schiller: Werke und Briefe in zwölf Bänden.Ed. v. Rolf-Peter Janz assisted by Hans Richard Brittnacher, Gerd Kleiner and

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