Speech by Yulia Agarkova at the 5th Student Conference of Philologists and Linguists

On May 22, 2021, Yulia Agarkova, a research-assistant at the International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue, made a presentation at the Student Conference of Philologists and Linguists

The conference was organized by the Department of Comparative Literature and Linguistics, Department of Philology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg. Yulia Agarkova made the presentation "F. Schiller's ballad "Die Kraniche des Ibykus" through the Prism of the Philosophical Views of the Weimar Classicism and the Idea of German Unity" at the general literary section of the conference.

Abstract:
"Die Kraniche des Ibykus" is a ballad by F. Schiller (1797), the plot of which goes back to the ancient Greek legend about the death of the wandering poet Ibycus. At first glance, the peripheral work of the great poet reflects the main features of the work of the Weimar Classicism of the late 18th century: an orientation towards the still non-existent German reader, the use of the ballad genre as the most synthetic as the second stage of the literary program of Goethe and Schiller, and an appeal to antiquity. The idea of ​​German unity permeates the entire text, from the genre choice to the characters in the plot. In addition to the theme of the unity of the German people, the report also covered the relationship between illusion and reality of theatrical performance in the ballad "Die Kraniche des Ibykus" and the power of the theater over the minds of the audience.