Sunday, March 8:
The children in church, I write to Marie Schl., and R. writes more letters. In the afternoon to the house, in the evening R. shows me what he read this morning in Tieck’s critical studies, in consequence of which we also go through the second act of Der Prinz von Homburg; slight disappointment - the idea incomparable, but some flaws in the execution, it also lacks the expansiveness which breathes in Schiller’s works.
In the afternoon, while R. was resting, I read parts of Wallenstein and was again overwhelmed by its beauty; happy the nation which possesses such a poet! R. talks about Tieck’s unfairness toward Schiller, which was certainly due to envy. They held Goethe to be above competition and simply admired him. R. remembers having seen in his youth the production of Der Prinz von Homburg of which Tieck writes, as well as Tieck’s own efforts for the stage: “He had the right dramatic instinct, though it was somewhat sketchy, but he came to grief over the modern German theater, such as it is.” Tieck’s interpretation of Der Prinz von Homburg pleases us greatly.
Telegram from Vienna reporting on the success of the concert for the benefit of Bayreuth.