Most of Schiller’s information about the history of the Swiss confederation is drawn from Aegidius Tschudi’s Chronicon Helveticum (Latin: ‘Swiss Chronicle’), Johannes von Müller’s History of the Swiss Confederation (German: Geschichten Schweizerischer Eidgenossenschaft), as well as two chronicles of Petermann Etterlin and Johannes Stumpf. After his friend, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, had returned from his second journey to the Lake of Lucerne in 1779, Schiller started collecting sources. įriedrich Schiller (who had never been to Switzerland, but was well informed, being a historian) was inspired to write a play about the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell by his wife Lotte, who knew the country from her personal experience. Since its publication, Schiller’s William Tell has been translated into many languages. The play was written by Friedrich Schiller between 18, and published that year in a first edition of 7000 copies. Gioachino Rossini's four-act opera Guillaume Tell was written to a French adaptation of Schiller's play. The story focuses on the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell as part of the greater Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century. William Tell ( German: Wilhelm Tell, German pronunciation: ( listen)) is a drama written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804.

Georg H.William Tell from the Schiller Galerie by Johann Leonhard Raab.

Friedrich Ettel as Advocatus in Wolfenschiessen.

Wolfdieter Hollender as little Wilhelm, Tell's youngest son.

Maly Delschaft as Barbara von Melchthal.

Emmy Göring as Hedwig Tell (credited as Emmy Sonnemann).

It is also known by the alternative title The Legend of William Tell. It was only after pressure from the British Foreign Office that he was eventually released. While working on the film Veidt, who had recently given sympathetic performances of Jews in Jew Suss (1934) and The Wandering Jew, was detained by the authorities. It was shot at the Marienfelde Studios of Terra Film in Berlin with location shooting in Switzerland. It was made in Germany by Terra Film, with a separate English-language version supervised by Manning Haynes also being released. It is based on the 1804 play William Tell by Friedrich Schiller about the Swiss folk hero William Tell.

William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1934 German-Swiss historical drama film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt and Emmy Göring.

Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller