19th Century German Inventions

19th Century German Inventions

19th Century German Music, Theatre and Dance

19th Century German Music, Theatre and Dance

EU As A Pivotal Organization For Germany In 21st Century

1. Germany is united to other European countries through the euro.


2. The EU's tax system is set up so that any person working in Germany pays taxes to Germany.


3. The EU acts as a cheap international marketplace for Germany, which has led to its' prosperity.


4. Germany's membership in the EU will allow Germany to stay a global competitor.


5. Within the EU the members do not have to worry about tarriffs etc. which will allow Germany to sell their products more competitively.


6. The EU is a step towards bettering Germany's reputation after WWI and WWII.


7. The EU is a large participator in helping the environment which will only help Germany in the future.

Rulers & Government

18th Century German Rulers & Government

18th Century Poet

Friedrich von Schiller
November 10 1759-May 9 1805

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German Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Dramatist and Historian Schiller born Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller in Marbach, Wurttemberg. Schiller's father, a military officer, ordered him to attend military academy against his sons wishes of studying theology. After 7 years of attending the academy he was dismissed because of his submission of a controversial essay on religion. After Schiller left the academy he was then forced to join his father's military regiment. Against his father's wishes he continued to write. Schiller worked very closely with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and were very influential towards eachother. He wrote 10 dramatical playwrights and is considered to be Germany's most important classical playwright. His most famous playwright is the Wallenstein, which was based on the Thirty Years War. Schiller only wrote 8 poems and very few of these were set to music, including one to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Giuseppe Verdi, an Italian composer, based many of his operas on Schiller's playwrights, some of them even having the same name.

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All Quiet On The Western Front: Day 1

All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a novel about a man namel Paul and the struggles he faces throughout World War I and how his life is changed after. It is a book of survival; Remarque describes experiences of men on the frontline such as starvation, injury fatigue etc and how they make it through the day. One major event is when Paul goes home on leave to visit family and learns his mother has cancer and is now faced with not only losing his fellow soldiers but his mother due to a disease. He also describes how everything has changed in his hometown, how he is no longer a part of the community he was a part of once but is now a part of the military and has no civilian identity. In the end there are no survivors.