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Deutsche Schillerstiftung

literary award

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1203878 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Deutsche Schillerstiftung (German Schiller Foundation), headquartered in Weimar, is the oldest private foundation for the assistance of writers in Germany, founded in 1855. It was refounded in 1995 as the Deutsche Schillerstiftung von 1859 (1859 German Schiller Foundation). It presents several awards and prizes for literary achievement and has since its foundation has assisted writers in financial emergencies or other pressing situations.

Editorial summary

“Deutsche Schillerstiftung” enters the record as literary award. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Deutsche, Schillerstiftung and literary 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—1855, 1995, 1859—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1855. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Deutsche, Schillerstiftung and literary.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Deutsche Schillerstiftung” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Deutsche, Schillerstiftung and literary provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1203878. VIAF identifies the subject as 156218828. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1855, 1995 and 1859.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  2. Expand the search: follow Deutsche Schillerstiftung primary sources, Deutsche Schillerstiftung archive and Deutsche 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.

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Deutsche Schillerstiftung” 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.