"The film FRIEDRICH SCHILLER THE POET AS A YOUNG MAN has been passed on as a print by Gosfilmofond in Moscow." "About 1,312 of the original 8,5864%." "censored version are missing." "Munich's Film Museum has corrected editing errors in the film with the help of the screenplay and a censor's report from 15 Aug. 1929." "In addition, the film was colored to suit contemporary conventions." "Scenes mentioned in the censor's report or in contemporary synopses but which are missing in the film have been replaced by title links." "Handwriting in German script is made more easily readable by using inserts with Latin letters." "The Poet as a Young Man" "Written by:" "Directed by:" "Director of Photography:" "Produced by:" "Act One" "Duke Karl of Wuerttemberg" "Countess Franziska of Hohenheim, the duke's mistress" "Christoph Maser, the pastor of Lurch' teaches his own son and young Schiller." ""Tomorrow we'll go on vacation." "And you'll go see your parents, Fritzie."" "The Karl School, the duke's hobby." "The pupil got up three minutes late!" ""He will stop eating."" "How the duke recruits soldiers." "Colonel Rieger" ""If you roll a higher number than me, you get 5 ducats." "If I roll a higher number, you belong to the duke."" ""18!" "I win!"" ""19!" "You belong to us!"" "Schiller and Moser also witness this scene and run away in fear." "Christian Daniel Schubart, the brilliant mocker of the duke who was driven away by the duke's hatred, lives in the free town of Ulm." "When Dionysus of Syracuse ceased to be a tyrant, he became a schoolmaster!" "The Civil Servant of Blaubeuren" "The Recruiting Officer Johann Kaspar Schiller" ""Mother The boy must go to Karl School." "The duke's orders."" "Dionysus of Syracuse, the tyrant, became a schoolmaster!" ""If he could only be grasped!"" ""May Your Highness be satisfied with me."" ""I want to be a pastor."" "Act Two" ""Schubart, come along to Blaubeuren to try my new wine."" ""You promised me you wouldn't cross the border!"" ""When I'm with my friend, nothing can harm me!"" ""Fritz would love to become a pastor."" ""No!" "He will be a lawyer."" ""The civil servant of Blaubeuren announces that he has succeeded in having Schubart arrested." "A coach is on its way here."" ""I don't want to see that cad here." "Lock him up in Hohenasperg."" "Schubart is led away by an escort through the open gate of Hohenasperg Fortress, which shuts behind him." "Act Three" "Five years later" "Duke Karl moves Karl School from Solitude to Stuttgart." "Among the 300 pupils marching through Stuttgart is also 17-year-old Friedrich Schiller." "Negev, new the commander of Hohenasperg Fortress" ""So?" "How's our 'pupil' doing?"" ""His heart remains stubborn." "He is as he was five years ago."" "Nightly ghost at Karl School" "The Cerberus Nies" ""You rascals!" "You miserable rogues!"" ""You little chicken-shits!"" "The nightly meeting place of Schiller's circle of friends was the detention cell." ""Of course, my friend Schiller, you vermin."" "The pupil snuck into the detention cell at night and read poems to his comrades!" ""Can't he ever stop writing those damn poems?" "Where are those scribblings?"" ""And the comrades?"" ""Since you are so fond of the cell, you may spend 14 days there."" "The Karl School's pupils' secret inn was located above the cell." ""Fellows, do you realize Goethe is coming to the celebration."" "And Goethe is coming, too!" "Duke Karl receives Duke Karl August of Weimar and his young friend, Herr von Goethe" ""..." "And he will later perform Clavigo."" "Preparing for the performance of Clavigo in honor of Goethe." "Clavigo Schiller performed quite vivaciously" "From one act to the next he became increasingly hilarious." "He lost his wig" "He raged, went wild and yelled" "He really tried hard not to be stabbed" ""You claim to be a poet?" "And know so little about acting!" "You make a fool of me in front of Goethe!" "What a clown!"" "Act Four" "Young Schubart, the son of Daniel Schubart who is imprisoned, recently enrolled at the Karl School and related his father's fate to Schiller." ""L beg Your Highness for permission to visit my father."" ""Fine." "And may you take the other 'poet' with you." "That will have a healthy effect on you!"" "The fruits of betrayal." ""Father!"" ""Father!"" "The royal tomb!" ""There they lie, the proud remains of princes." "Formerly the world's idols!" "There they lie, illuminated by the terrible glimmer of the pale day!"" ""Where angels of death reach for tyrants, as they are woken in fury by the judge whose rage rises to a mountainous height, engulfing them in flames."" ""General it's Schubart again!"" ""A deserter!" "Will be shot!"" ""Where have I seen that face before?"" "Schiller reveals to his friend his plan to write a play about the oppressed." "The civil servant finds no peace." "Schiller's fragile nature hasn't withstood the recent upheavals." "On the correlation between man's animalistic nature and his spiritual nature!" "The Robbers in Tyrannos!" ""Reprieve Schubart." "My conscience cannot rest until that is so!"" ""May you answer to your own conscience."" "On an outing to Bopser Forest" "Schiller secretly reads to his friends from his manuscript of "The Robbers." They applaud him tumultuously." "Being imprisoned for over 5 years in that musty tower, with no fresh air, wretched food and darkness," "Schubart is broken both physically and emotionally." "Act Five" "Schiller receives 18 guilders a month in the Augé Regiment." "He lives with Lieutenant Kapf at the home of the widow Luise Vischerin." "The heavenly moments to Laura!" ""Since when is Mrs. Vischerin called 'Laura'?" ""Gentlemen, you're performing 'The Robbers'?"" ""Come and relax with a nice warm cup of coffee."" ""Have you written another poem?"" ""I just read a lovely poem."" ""I have guard duty."" "Iffland reads to the actors of the Mannheim National Theater:" ""The Robbers" which the bookseller Schwan has recommended to Dalberg to perform on stage." "Von Dalberg" ""What's the writer's name?"" ""Schiller!"" "At the "Golden Ox" in Stuttgart." ""Haven't the others arrived yet?"" ""Na"" "Bill of 13.39 guilders for food and drink consumed by Schiller and Petersen" ""I'm afraid I forgot my money today!"" ""Well, when did you ever remember your money?"" "What great fellows." "I was there, but no Petersen or Reichenbach." "Good gracious!" "Why aren't we playing cards today?" "To hell with you!" "I'm at home if you need me." "Cheerio." "Schiller." ""He must come here!"" "To Regiment Dr. Schiller" "Honorable sir, we inform you that we have selected the play "The Robbers"" "for the National Theater." "Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg" "Manager of the National Theater" ""Good day, dear Mrs. Vischerin, what is on your mind?"" "Schiller wrote that terrible book, and now it's going to be performed." "Can't Your Highness appeal to his conscience, for the duke will certainly be enraged by it?" ""You seem to be quite concerned about Schiller ...?"" ""I want to read it." "Have Schiller come by."" "The next morning." ""My name is Andreas Streicher, musician." "I have read all your poems and dearly admire you." "Now I would also like to read 'The Robbers.'" "Couldn't you possibly give me a book?"" ""Take as many as you like."" ""And do me a favor." "Come see me again." "I am very fond of you."" ""Schiller, you're supposed to see Countess von Hohenheim."" ""What might she want from me?"" ""Schiller, Schiller, haven't you considered the duke?"" ""You want to have it performed?"" ""Yes, and I'm going to Mannheim to see it performed."" ""I asked Schiller to come by, because my doggy has worms." "I want Schiller to write me a prescription."" ""Then my doggy will be freed of its suffering at last."" ""I hope that my dear Schiller has not been encouraged in his poetic extravaganzas." "What is the book about?"" ""It deeply moved me." "You have to read it."" ""For your sake, I'll read it, but that stuff will never be performed."" "Act Six" "Schiller and Petersen on the way to Mannheim" ""I'll be right there."" ""Hurry, for Christ's sake!" "Or they'll perform 'The Robbers' without us!"" "Could we take the girl with us?"" ""'The Robbers' is being performed, and you sit there pondering!"" ""Hey, I'm just a strange character!"" "Iffland at the makeup table" ""Regiment Dr. Schiller shall see me at once."" "Brother, I have seen those people, their busy little worries and their huge projects, divine plans and the business of mice" "The colorful lottery of life" "The rabble's wisdom!" "The rabble's fear!" "Does one seek vengeance above the stars?" "No!" "No!" "Does one pass judgment above the stars?" "I am no common murderer, my Lord." "I've never been concerned with trivia, my Lord - " "Schiller is a revolutionary." "He is a danger to the throne and society" ""For God's sake, what are you going to do?"" "" N "" ""Regiment Dr. Schiller is nowhere to be found in Stuttgart."" ""That was the nicest day of my life!"" "Act Seven" ""Get up!" "You must see the duke at once!"" ""His play is the work of the devil." "It would stir up trouble if it were ever performed."" ""It was just performed." "Yesterday." "In Mannheim."" ""And you were there?" "Without leave?"" ""You shall go to detention for that." "Then you shall hear what awaits you." "Dismissed!"" ""Wait!" "Wait!" "The duke's orders:" "You must walk home!"" ""The dukes orders:" "I must be thrown into the pen!"" "Petersen tells Schiller's friends about his success in Mannheim." "News of Schiller's arrest stirs up enormous outrage." "Fiasco" "When the cloak falls the duke must also follow suit" ""Detention ends today." "But remember:" "I order that everything you conjure up in your poet's brain, be given to me for approval."" ""I cannot do that."" ""Remember Schubert!"" "By giving up one's liberty, one also gives up one's human nature." "Then escape!" "Act Eight" ""I'll wait here." "Don't make it too hard on yourself."" ""Fritzie What's wrong?"" "Mother I must leave you." "I need more freedom than I have here." "Every stroke of the pen, every word could put me in prison!" ""Don't you want to have a look, Father?"" ""Father mustn't know about my flight, so he can look the duke straight in the eyes."" "Preparations" ""Go through Esslinger Gate tomorrow." "I'm on duty there."" "Banquet in honor of Grand Duke Paul of Russia" ""What should we do with it?" "One has no flint." "The other has a broken lock."" ""That doesn't matter!" "If you haul a piano with you then I can certainly take along two pistols."" "Dr. Ritter and Dr. Wolf travel to Esslingen" ""Pass."" ""That was Dr. Schiller!"" ""I must tell His Highness that Schiller just fled through Esslinger Gate."" ""His Highness is in such brilliant mood" "Tell him tomorrow morning instead!"" ""My mother lives there!"" "The end."