Born into a poor Bohemian Protestant family, he converted to Roman Catholicism and acquired wealth, power and ducal status in the service of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.
It was the first play I ever saw in a German theater, in Hamburg in the late 1980s, and I still remember the way Schiller's verse thundered through the auditorium, the quintessence of Sturm und Drang.Īlbrecht von Wallenstein was one of the towering figures of the Thirty Years' War. In Friedrich Schiller's The Death of Wallenstein, the downfall of a mercenary has a dark, tragic majesty.
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