Schiller in New Orleans, 1842

"Walter Scott and Carlyle were probably the chief conveyors of notions associated with English romanticism, Lamartine the principal 'culture carrier' of the French, and Schiller of the German, so far as New Orleans was concerned....
"A student of 'The German Drama on the New Orleans Stage' [April 1843] found that Schiller was preferred to all other German playwrights in the Louisiana metropolis. He first became well known there in 1842, when Die Räuber was produced at the German theater, probably the earliest organized German stage in America. The influx of thousands of German immigrants to New Orleans, in this period, had led to the establishment of the German theater, in 1839. During the [18]50's not only the German-speaking section of the population but the entire city was enthusiastic for Schiller."

-- Romanticism and Nationalism in the Old South, Rollin Osterweis, 1949, p. 164.