January 13 – Friedrich Schiller's first play, the revolutionary melodramaThe Robbers (Die Räuber), causes a sensation in Mannheim at its first performance.[1] Schiller, a military doctor at the time, is arrested for attending the performance without having permission to leave his regiment.[2]
↑ Hammer, Stephanie Barbé (2001). Schiller's Wound: The Theater of Trauma from Crisis to Commodity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p.32. ISBN0814328628.
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