From a short blurb in Der Lutheraner, May 16, 1848, p 152:
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| Teller —— Iffland |
The difference between a rationalist church
and a comedy house.
When the rationalist [Wilhelm Abraham] Teller once asked the theater director [August Wilhelm] Iffland in Berlin: how is it that our churches are getting emptier every day, and your theaters are getting fuller every day? – Iffland answered: that's why you give truth as fiction, and we give fiction as truth.
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Most of the times that I research the persons referenced in Der Lutheraner I get much information from Wikipedia and other sources. But they don't give the full story… like Der Lutheraner does.
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