FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Original German 9 inch x 6 1/2 inch Still of LIL DAGOVER & HERBERT HUBNER in the 1940 Herbert Maisch Drama FRIEDRICH SCHILLER – DER TRIUMPH EINES GENIES, based on the novel by Norbert Jacques.

‘Friedrich Schiller’ is a film which intentionally serves Nazi agenda without being explicitly pro-Nazi. This film purports to tell the story of Schiller, the 18th-century German playwright and blank-verse poet. A contemporary and friend of Goethe, Friedrich Schiller was an important poet in his own right: his ‘Ode to Joy’ was set to music as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

‘Friedrich Schiller’ was released in 1940 (shortly after Hitler’s early military triumphs) with the subtitle ‘Der Triumph eines Genies’ (Triumph of a Genius). Movie audiences were clearly meant to see parallels between Schiller and Hitler.

The still, on heavyweight paper, is in very good condition with minor surface marks.