“For nearly two centuries the remains of Friedrich Schiller — poet, playwright and rebel — have lain in a crypt in the town of Weimar, next to the coffin of his good friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.” Or have they? As Luke Harding reports in a story for The Observer, with Germany about to launch a nationwide celebration of the 200th anniversary of Schiller’s death, with numerous ceremonies slated for Weimar, there is serious doubt in some quarters that the right body is buried in Schiller’s tomb. As Harding explains, after Schiller died in poverty in 1805, “His body was put in a mass grave in the local cemetery. Some 21 years later, Weimar’s mayor, Karl Leberecht Schwabe, decided to dig him up. Faced with a choice of 27 skulls, Schwabe put them all on a table and picked the biggest, declaring: ‘That must be Schiller’s.'”