Friedrich Schiller

Record year1781

summaryTransforms individual freedom, political oppression, revolutionary violence, state power, and moral choice into complete stage conflicts in multiple historical settings, and later develops a more restrained classical dramatic structure. An interrelated historical-political drama family including "The Robbers," "Fiesco," "Intrigue and Love," "Don Carlos," "Wallenstein," "Mary Stuart," "The Maid of Orleans," and "William Tell," without repeating credit by play title; performance services count only the premiere realization required for delivery of the scripts, while later performances and adaptations are excluded.

M rationaleAuthoritative institutions use seven plays as exhibition cores and record actual deliverables by Goethe, actors, and theaters; the work family has multiple completed dramatic outcomes, at M6.1; it is not accumulated play by play.

attribution rationaleSchiller 0.55; Goethe 0.07; theater teams 0.08; historical materials 0.08; earlier work in drama 0.12; institutions 0.04; unresolved 0.06.

overlap boundaryAn interrelated historical-political drama family including "The Robbers," "Fiesco," "Intrigue and Love," "Don Carlos," "Wallenstein," "Mary Stuart," "The Maid of Orleans," and "William Tell," without repeating credit by play title; performance services count only the premiere conversion required to deliver the scripts, while later performances and adaptations are excluded.

Evidence gapsPlay-by-play versions, premiere rewritings, and actor inputs have not yet been separately specified.

Record year1782

summaryForms a poetic corpus combining public recitation with complete story structures across brotherhood, freedom, moral choice, and narratives of fate. A complementary work family of documented lyric poems, odes, and narrative ballads including "Ode to Joy," "The Cranes of Ibycus," and "The Ring of Polycrates"; M is not repeated by the number of poems, and later musical compositions and adaptations by Beethoven and others are excluded.

M rationaleInstitutional educational materials confirm the ballad contest and specific narrative works; SEP confirms dozens of poems and the independent standing of "Ode to Joy." This body of completed poetry across several forms is assigned M5.5.

attribution rationaleSchiller 0.62; literary exchange 0.06; editorial transmission 0.05; earlier work in poetry 0.14; institutions 0.04; unresolved 0.09.

overlap boundaryA complementary work family of documented lyric poems, odes, and narrative ballads including "Ode to Joy," "The Cranes of Ibycus," and "The Ring of Polycrates"; M is not repeated by the number of poems, and later musical compositions and adaptations by Beethoven and others are excluded.

Evidence gapsFirst-publication versions and editorial inputs for each poem still require a dedicated catalogue; this does not affect the provisional estimate for the work family.

Record year1793

summaryModels aesthetic experience as a mediating force that coordinates sensibility and reason and makes freedom and moral action possible, forming a debatable theoretical structure through concepts such as the "play drive." A theoretical family centered on sense/form drives, the play drive, the aesthetic state, and education for freedom in "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man" and related aesthetic-ethical essays; the artistic value of drama and poetry themselves is excluded.

M rationaleSEP provides specific concepts, relations to Kant, and boundaries in subsequent philosophical history, while the surviving letters are an independent theoretical carrier; M5.7 is assigned, and it is not lowered because of the degree of access to the original text.

attribution rationaleSchiller 0.46; Kant 0.14; Goethe 0.05; earlier work in thought 0.14; correspondence editing 0.06; institutions 0.04; unresolved 0.11.

overlap boundaryA theoretical family centered on sense/form drives, the play drive, the aesthetic state, and education for freedom in "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man" and related aesthetic-ethical essays; the artistic value of drama and poetry themselves is excluded.

Evidence gapsThe recipients of the letters, funding relationships, and conceptual sources by essay have not yet been fully resolved.

Record year1788

summaryOrganizes scattered war and political materials into a continuous causal narrative for a broad readership, connecting questions of religious tolerance, power, and freedom. The historical narratives and synthesized completed outcomes of The History of the Netherlands’ Secession from Spain and The History of the Thirty Years’ War; when related materials enter the Wallenstein dramas, only the residual adaptation value is counted, not the repeated value of organizing historical facts.

M rationaleSEP explicitly identifies the two major historical works and the Jena teaching, indicating that this is a textual completed outcome independent of the dramas; it is set at M5.1, with no chronological coefficient added for success or fame.

attribution rationaleSchiller 0.48; source authors 0.19; earlier historiography 0.14; editors 0.06; Jena/publishing institutions 0.05; unresolved 0.08.

overlap boundaryThe historical narratives and synthesized completed outcomes of The History of the Netherlands’ Secession from Spain and The History of the Thirty Years’ War; when related materials enter the Wallenstein dramas, only the residual adaptation value is counted, not the repeated value of organizing historical facts.

Evidence gapsHistorical accuracy and contemporary professional historiographical corrections have not yet been checked chapter by chapter; therefore M is for narrative/synthesis, rather than the full amount for factual authority.