Playing Walser
摘要
In 1894, having developed a taste for the theatretheatre, the teenage Robert Walser attended a performance of the classic play by Friedrich SchillerSchiller, Friedrich, The Robbers, which made a lasting impression on him. In a poem published in Die literarische Weltin 1928, ‘SchillerSchiller, Friedrich’, Walser wrote that there was ‘hardly anything I would change about The Robbers … so glorious you must laugh’. There is a striking portrait by Karl WalserWalser, Karl (himself destined to become a noted theatrical set designer who worked with Max ReinhardtReinhardt, Max in Berlin during the early years of the twentieth century) of his brother Robert dressed as SchillerSchiller, Friedrich’s protagonist Franz Moor.