August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German playwright, who had also worked as a Russian diplomat.
Announcement of two pieces by August von Kotzebue performed at the theater of Bruges on 8 August 1813
Stabbing of Kotzebue
Portrait of Kotzebue in Weimar
The tomb of August von Kotzebue in Mannheim
The first Wartburg Festival was a convention of about 500 Protestant German students, held on 18 October 1817 at the Wartburg castle near Eisenach in Thuringia. The former refuge of reformer Martin Luther was considered a national symbol and the assembly a protest against reactionary politics and Kleinstaaterei.
Students marching to the Wartburg in 1817
Book burning after the Wartburg festival