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This article draws attention to an area of Friedrich Schiller’s theoretical work that has hardly been recognised to date: his examination of the low and the common. The aim is to show the virulence of the debate in the course of the discussions about the popular around 1800 and, on the other hand, the conceptual proximity to the sublime. As a literary example, Schiller’s last published poem – Nänie – comes into view.