Thalia (journal)

Thalia was a magazine that in 1784 during his time as a playwright at the Mannheim theater, Friedrich Schiller into life. The editor has sought to maintain a strong literary claim in this project. In addition, the Thalia should also secure his livelihood, as Schiller in Mannheim got no firm commitment.

Schiller was 1782-1797 worked as a publicist of magazines. The Thalia was his second magazine project and forerunner of the much more successful Horen after Wirtembergischen repertory. The project was announced in 1784 as " Rheinische Thalia ". However, this title was only the first issue, which appeared in 1785 and Duke Carl August of Saxe- Weimar was dedicated. The book sold poorly. As of January 1786, the publisher Georg Joachim Goschen took over the organizational work, and until 1791 appeared under the name "Thalia" another 11 books. After an interruption due to Schiller's serious illness in 1791, the project was continued on the initiative Goschen 1792-1793 as New Thalia.

The magazine took on historical, philosophical, literary and scientific contributions to theater, including current reports from revolutionary France were included. Large audience interest provoked Schiller preprints of Don Carlos and the ghost -seer. Although, among others, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Forster and Christian Gottfried Körner could be won as contributors to the demand of high quality left realize not continuous.