Schiller would have twittered/Schiller würde heute vermutlich twittern

The director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach, Ulrich Raulff, thinks that if Schiller were alive today he would not be writing plays but blogging or twittering. He chose plays as the most media-effective form of expression of his day.

Der vor 250 Jahren geborene Dichter sei ganz gezielt “als Medienunternehmer in das damals wirkungsvollste und stärkste Medium reingegangen: ins Theater”, betonte der Schiller-Experte. “Von der Intensität, wie er dieses Medium erobert und nutzt, könnte man schon sagen, wäre zu erwarten, dass er heute vermutlich nicht Stückchen schreiben würde für Suhrkamps Theaterverlag, sondern nach einer anderen, stärkeren Maschine greifen würde.”

This reminds me the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, which I enjoyed as a set book in my degree course. Could one imagine Goethe and Schiller exchanging letters today? But somehow I can’t see it as a text message exchange. Perhaps they would have blogged (despite Raulff’s view that Goethe was less modern than Schiller).

Tweeted by Markus Trapp of text+blog.

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