Literaturkanon und Identitätspolitik. Notizen zu den Wiener Schillerfeiern im 19. Jahrhundert.

This article deals with Friedrich Schiller's multimedia staging of the leading figure of a German cultural nation at the Viennese poet's celebration in 1859. Measured against the political crisis of the Habsburg monarchy, the centenary celebration clearly reflects the collective longings and illusions of the German-Austrian bourgeoisie. The individual events can be understood as media events and 'cultural performances', in which the politically oriented festival content was conveyed. Last but not least, the use and popularization of Schiller also pushed his canonization further - from a literary and theatrical perspective, not always to the advantage of the 'Austrian literature' of the 18th and 19th centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]