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Das Siegesfest

poem by Friedrich Schiller

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ1170381 ↗
Source-derived summary

"The Victory Festival" ("Das Siegesfest") is a poem written in May 1803 by Friedrich Schiller, whose theme is the futility of military victories.

Editorial summary

“Das Siegesfest” enters the record as poem by Friedrich Schiller. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Siegesfest, poem and Friedrich can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1803—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1803-05, 1803—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Siegesfest, poem and Friedrich.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Das Siegesfest” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Siegesfest, poem and Friedrich provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1170381. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1803.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Das Siegesfest”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Das Siegesfest primary sources, Das Siegesfest archive and Siegesfest research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Das Siegesfest”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Das Siegesfest” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.