Abstract
The interest of cultural history in the fabrication, negotiation and circulation of meaning and identities has by now entered the traditional realms of political history.1 A classic field with which to study these processes of fabrication and circulation is the public festival. In this paper the author describes and discusses the 1859 celebrations of the 100th birthday of Friedrich Schiller as a juncture in the discourse of German nation-building that is bound to locally bound actors as participants in a discursive contest of performances as interpretations and fabrications of the nation.
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