Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem

By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein’s Camp, The Piccolomini and Wallenstein’s Death, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the original direction of Schiller’s collaborator and mentor, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Across the three plays, which are now commonly performed and printed together, Schiller charts the thwarted rebellion of General Albrecht von Wallenstein. Based loosely on the events of the Thirty Years’ War, the trilogy provides a unique perspective on an army’s loyalty to their commander and the machinations and intrigues of international diplomacy, giving insight into the military hero who is placed on the threshold between these forces as they are increasingly pitted against one another.
The Wallenstein trilogy, formally innovative and modern beyond its time, is a brilliant study of power, ambition and betrayal. In this new translation—the latest in a long line of distinguished English translations starting with Coleridge’s in Schiller’s lifetime—Flora Kimmich succeeds in rendering what is often a difficult source text into language that is at once accessible and enjoyable. Coupled with a complete and careful commentary and a glossary, both of which are targeted to undergraduates, it is accompanied by an authoritative introductory essay by Roger Paulin. Kimmich’s translation will be an invaluable resource for students of German, European literature and history, and military history, as well as to all readers approaching this important set of plays for the first time.
Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem
Friedrich Schiller. Translated by Flora Kimmich. Introduction by Roger Paulin. | February 2017
Open Book Classics Series, vol. 5 | ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online)
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ISBN Paperback: 9781783742639
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DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0101
BIC subject codes: DSG (Literary studies: plays and playwrights), AN (Theatre studies); BISAC: LIT004170 (Literary criticism: German), LIT013000 (Literary criticism: Drama)
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Translator’s Note
Flora Kimmich
Additional Resources
Introduction
Roger Paulin
Wallenstein’s Camp
Prologue
Characters
Act One
The Piccolomini. In five acts
Characters
Act One
Act Two
Act Three
Act Four
Act Five
The Death of Wallenstein. A tragedy in five acts
Characters
Act One
Act Two
Act Three
Act Four
Act Five
Notable Names
Notes to Wallenstein’s Camp
Notes to The Piccolomini
Notes to The Death of Wallenstein
Translation and Notes to the Text © 2017 Flora Kimmich.
Introduction © 2017 Roger Paulin.

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Introduction © 2017 Roger Paulin.

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Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem. Translation and Notes to the Text by Flora Kimmich. Introduction by Roger Paulin. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0101
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Readers can freely access the original German text of Schiller’s Wallenstein (Stuttgart and Berlin: J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1911) at Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6518
A reading of the drama (in German) is freely available at LibriVox, https://librivox.org/wallenstein-ein-dramatisches-gedicht-by-friedrich-von-schiller
A reading of the drama (in German) is freely available at LibriVox, https://librivox.org/wallenstein-ein-dramatisches-gedicht-by-friedrich-von-schiller