Abstract
The contemporary reception - Lessing criticism before 1779, reviews of Nathan the Wise, theatrical responses, after Lessing's death Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich Schiller - Schlegel, Schiller the 19th century - the historical school, positivism, geistesgeschichte 1879 and 1881 Lessing and the Jews - Jewish critics, anti-Semitic criticism from Empire to Republic - Franz Mehring, the First World War, before Hitler's seizure of power 1933-1945 - National Socialist criticism, the Volksfront after 1945 - reconciliation with the past, form, function, language, and theology, utopia, the bourgeois element, Lessing and Brecht, the East German criticism, Lessing and the consequences, where to go from here.
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