By means of an analysis of the characteristics of the two works, the different historic interest of the two authors becomes manifest. Döblin's novel is remarkable in its strict adherence to the available sources on the Thirty Years' War and on the character of Wallenstein, as well as for its utterly negative judgement of the protagonist and of his conduct. What predominates in the trilogy by Schiller, on the other hand, is the dramatist’s interest for the general issues on the theory of history, and particularly on the relationship between freedom and necessity.
