Christian considers whether he should kill Robert, or flee
The criminal from lost honour - a true story is a crime report by Friedrich Schiller, published in, first under the title"criminals of infamy"Christian Wolf, 'the sun host', is the son of a widowed innkeeper. He is a thief out of need of money wild to impress his beloved Johanne with gifts, since he acts because of his appearance is a little attractive.
His rival, Robert, a hunter guy, caught him in the poaching and report it to the police.
Wolf can buy from his punishment, commits, however, continue to be wild theft as the payment of a monetary penalty has exhausted his entire savings. As a result, Christian comes to a year in prison. After serving his sentence, he searches for a job, but is rejected in the case of craftsmen and farmers. Even working as a swineherd he was denied He is convicted a second Time, and to three years in penal labour on a fortress. There, the harsh living conditions and poor personal let him The influence of the other prisoners hatred for all people and the desire for revenge to develop. After the third penalty, he decides to do his crimes will henceforth intent and pleasure and not necessity. As he is about to shoot one day, just a deer, he discovers his rival, Robert, with the aim of the animal. His desire for revenge outweigh and he shoots Robert in the back. Soon, the remorse takes hold of him and he wants to be able to the fact and make it disappear. On his escape from the scene of the crime, a robber speaks to him, wants to Rob him first and give him respect as a Christian is to be recognized as the ortsbekannte poachers. Pleased to be out of any human society failed, Christian of the gang of robbers and even their captain.
He decides to serve the Rest of his life as a soldier
Wolf is notorious due to a series of burglaries and robberies in the area. He noted, however, that the Friendship is in the gang, an Illusion. As a head money is suspended on him, he gets scared to be betrayed. Because self-esteem and ehrbewusst be not extinguished in him, he wants to return in some way in the society. He writes several letters to the princes, in which he asks for mercy, if he joins the army. Since the letters remain unanswered, he tries to flee to Prussia, to go there in the military service. At border control, he believes, to be as a wanted criminal, have been recognized, and pulls out a gun. He is overpowered and arrested The bailiff to Christian revealed after a day in custody voluntarily his identity. Christian Wolf is finally executed for his deeds The story is based on a true story, which probably Jacob Friedrich von Abel, Schiller's teacher on the military organized Charles school, announced.
His father had been arrested as a bailiff in the sun waiting.
Abel had picked up the story as"The case Frederick Swan"in his"a collection and explanation of strange phenomena from human life,"volume. The topic Hermann renewed Briefly in"The sun host. Swabian folk tale from the last century“ (Frankfurt). The crime report is first to see as a testimony of his time. The status of the nobility shows the typical privileges such as the right to hunt, the disregarding of which a disproportionate punishment. In contrast to many of the other young plants, it is Schiller, in"The criminal from lost honour", not a specific criticism of the absolutism, but to the consideration and attention of the people as an individual.
On the one hand, he criticizes the part of the readership, the lack of empathic assets, rather, the entertainment in the stand value and not the textbook The foreground.
On the other hand, he puts the former legal system in question, the little room for the nature of law. It should be strict and do not see any grace or Resozialisation. Schiller also wants to show a counter-example to the Ideal of harmony between inclination and duty, by letting the criminals of this fact immediately regret it. Dramatic works The robbers of the soul The conspiracy of Fiesch at Genoa intrigue and love punch in the morning, Don Karlos, Wallenstein(Wallenstein's camp - The Piccolomini - Wallenstein's death), Maria Stuart, The maid of Orleans The bride of Messina, Wilhelm Tell, The homage of the arts Demetrius lyrics Hector song Hector and Andromache In the joy of Resignation to The gods of Greece, The veiled image at Sais the division of The earth The walk Xenien of The glove The diver The cranes of Ibykus, The Ring of Polycrates, Ritter toggenburg, The passage to the iron hammer, The fight with the dragon, The Guarantee, The collection is possible the Feast, The song of the bell Nänie of The commencement of the new century, The victory of prose, The criminal of lost honour, of The spirits rather The broadcast of Moses, A magnanimous action game of fate, Philosophical, literature and theatre theoretical writings On the connection between the animal nature of man with his spiritual present-day German theatre, The walk under the Linden Philosophical letters on Don Carlos, The stage considered as a moral institution On the basic of pleasure in tragic objects On the tragic art Scattered reflections on various aesthetic items On the necessary limits in the use of beautiful forms, On the moral Use of aesthetic manners thoughts about the use of Common and Low in art August Burger of letters By the blessed one About grace and Dignity Over the Pathetic Kallas-letters On the aesthetic Education of man On naive and sentimental-metal seal, On the Sublime Historical works is What and studied what at the end one universal history.
History of the rebellion of the United Netherlands from the Spanish government in the history of the thirty years war out of the muses, given to magazines württemberg repertory of the literature of Thalia and The Horen-almanac.
