Arrangera lek Wallenstein av Friedrich Schiller - Bildbanksillustration

Wallenstein is the common name for a trilogy of drama by Friedrich Schiller. It consists of the works Wallenstein's camp with a longer prologue, Die Piccolomini and Wallenstein's death, whereby Schiller also divided the trilogy into Wallenstein I with Wallenstein's camp and Die Piccolomini and Wallenstein II, consisting of Wallenstein's death. In it, Schiller deals with the decline of the famous general Wallenstein, freely orienting himself on real historical events: Wallenstein fails at the peak of his power, he is the successful commander in chief of the imperial army when he begins to rebel against his emperor Ferdinand II. Illustration from 19th century