Die Thalia

Thalia, Die, a periodical founded by Schiller in the hope of financial reward and as a vehicle for his own publications. The intention was to publish every second month, but it appeared at irregular intervals. The first number, published in 1785 while Schiller was at Mannheim, bore the title Die Rheinische Thalia. This was altered in subsequent numbers to Die Thalia because Schiller had removed far from the Rhine. In 1792 the title was changed to Die Neue Thalia; the periodical ceased publication in 1793.

The first two acts of Don Carlos and a part of the third were published in instalments in Die Rheinische Thalia and Die Thalia. The fragment of a play by Schiller, Der versöhnte Menschenfeind, and the narratives Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre and Der Geisterseher appeared in Die Thalia, and several of his philosophical works were first published in Die Neue Thalia (Über den Grund des Vergnügens an tragischen Gegenständen, Über die tragische Kunst, Über Anmut und Würde, and Vom Erhabenen). The fragment of Hölderlin's Hyperion, published in 1794, is known as the ‘Thalia-Fassung’ (also ‘Das Thalia-Fragment’).