August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German dramatist and writer who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany.
In 1817, one of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften. This murder gave Metternich the pretext to issue the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, which dissolved the Burschenschaften, cracked down on the liberal press, and seriously restricted academic freedom in the states of the German Confederation. Wikipedia
“Translated: There is another and a better world.”
August von Kotzebue book Menschenhass und Reue
Es gibt noch ein anderes, besseres Leben.
Menschenhass und Reue (1798), Act I, scene 1; repeated by another character in Act III, scene 1. This title translates as Misanthropy and Repentance, but is known in English as The Stranger; translated by N. Schink, London, 1799.
Der Verleumder II, 1.
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“Die liebenswürdigste der Frauen wird immer auch die schönste sein.”
Die neue Frauenschule.
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“Kluge Sanftmut ist des Weibes unwiderstehlichste Waffe.”
Die Belagerung von Saragossa.
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