Give us freedom of thought. Schiller's Drama in Slovenia, temporary exhibition

In the theatre of his time, Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) – also in the wider European space – shone like a comet, garnering incredible enthusiasm from the audience and quickly penetrating the stages of Austrian theatres. In the 1791/92 season, a travelling theatre group from Klagenfurt staged his early plays, Intrigue and Love and The Robbers, at the Estates Theatre in Ljubljana. Schiller's tragedies in German were in the repertoire of the Ljubljana theatre until the end of the First World War.

With the exhibition marking the 220th anniversary of Schiller's death, we want to draw attention to his presence in Slovenian culture and his influence on our literature and theatre. The first book translations date back to the 1940s, when Slovenians did not yet have the conditions for such demanding stage challenges as staging Schiller's works.