Europe’s Kulturstadt for 1999

Schiller's life in Weimar. One of its most interesting exhibits isrna framed copy of the patent of nobility that Emperor Francis IIrngranted in November 1802 (four years before Napoleon abolishedrnthe Holy Roman Empire) to Johann Christoph vonrnSchiller—the erstwhile commoner from Ludwigsburg whosernfirst play, Die Rduber {The Robbers), had . . .