A literary reference in the Trauerspiel paintings is Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Llebe: Ein bürgerliches trauerspiel (Intrigue and Love: A bourgeois tragedy, 1783), a Sturm und
Drang drama attacking political corruption and emphasizing moral autonomy, and the emerging middle class caught up in the values of the ancient regime.
A wannabe - Sturm und
Drang relationship
drama between characters barely recognisable as human, The Room became a cult phenomenon for obvious reasons, because there's no possible doubt in the matter: it's obliviously terrible in ways just about anyone could see, save for its notorious creator, who poured $ 6 million of his own mysteriously - gotten savings into the project.