3. Schiller

Fig. 3 Wallenstein, from Friedrich Schiller’s drama trilogy Wallenstein, steel engraving after a drawing by Friedrich Pecht, c. 1859. Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallenstein_aus_Schillers_Wallenstein.jpg, public domain. Critics and commentators are in general agreement that Wallenstein represents the pinnacle of Friedrich Schiller’s achievement as a dramatist. Contemporaries like Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Wilhelm von Humboldt sensed that this was a new high point in G.