A cry for help was heard from a poets’ association in Dreieich
“You can’t stop people from thinking what they want.” Paulet says the beautiful line to Burleigh in Schiller’s “Maria Stuart”. A typical Schiller quote that looks good in a democracy on a plaque set up in a Schiller school. But the Schiller School of Dreieich became the Georg Büchner School, and there was no longer any place for stone. Other Schiller schools in the region also didn’t want it. According to a report published in October by the Offenbach Post, members of Dreieich’s Club of Rare Writing were therefore “sad and disappointed”. They had donated the stone to the school about 15 years ago. “Who will take care of the ownerless memorial stone?” The call for help from Alexander Köhnlein, president of the poets’ association, was heard in Rödermark. The stone has now found a new worthy home in front of the entrance to the SchillerHaus. And this was proudly announced on Thursday at a press conference on site – on the occasion of Schiller’s 263rd birthday – the stone was delivered in words, so to speak.
Alexander Köhnlein thanked Mayor Jörg Rotter, who thanked his predecessor: Honorary Mayor Roland Kern, a lover of literature in general and a lover of the great classics in particular, read the report and immediately thought of the SchillerHaus he founded. Even where tolerance is called for with a quote from Schiller – “The earth has room for everyone” – the appeal to freedom of thought is in good hands, he thought.
Kern contacted Rotter, who liked the idea and commissioned Thomas Mörsdorf, head of the “Culture, Homeland and Europe” department, to implement it. Alexander Köhnlein was also able to get used to the new location, and that’s how things took their course. On Monday of this week Helmut and Maximilian Sulzmann collected the 300-kilogram stone from the Sprendlinger primary school in Hengstbach and brought it to the SchillerHaus. There, the city depot employees only have to concrete it into a small bed between the entrance steps and the railing.
Everyone involved was very happy with how one thing leads to another and how the SchillerHaus came to have a Schiller memorial stone. Friedrich himself would certainly have nothing against the new location.
(Text: PM City of Rödermark)
