'Emilia Galotti' is one of the first political dramas in German literature and was of great significance for the Sturm und Drang era, for Schiller and Goethe, who has Werther read it before his suicide. It revolves around the conflict between the despotic power of the principality and the emerging bourgeois self-awareness in the second half of the 18th century. Prince Gonzaga, who wants to seduce Emilia Galotti at any cost, thwarts the upcoming wedding of the young bourgeois woman by orchestrating a fatal accident for Count Appiani. Emilia's father, Odoardo, is supposed to avenge his death, but instead of killing the prince, he stabs his own daughter to preserve her honor before the storm strips it away. Self-sacrifice instead of revolution.