The Schiller monument on Warmer Damm, in front of the rear of the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden, created by the Berlin sculptor Joseph Uphues (1850-1911), was unveiled on May 9, 1905 to mark the 100th anniversary of Friedrich von Schiller's death.

The Carrara marble monument depicts the young poet standing larger than life on a high pedestal as an idealist who rises above all that is "common". Below him, seated on a pedestal bench, a serious-looking female figure in antique garb symbolizes tragedy. On the sides of the plinth, two masks embody tragedy and comedy. When the monument was erected, the inscription was also placed in the pediment of the rear portico of the theater: "The dignity of mankind is given into your hands. Preserve it!" The line comes from Schiller's didactic poem "The Artists".

An earlier Wiesbaden Schiller monument, a bust of the poet in front of the Nassau court theater on what was then Theaterplatz (today's Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz), was unveiled in 1866. The bust of Schiller by Johann Baptist Scholl the Younger, in the style of Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, still stood in front of the old theater at the beginning of 1897. Its temporary disappearance - it was later placed in the courtyard of the Leibnizschule, where it still stands today - was blamed on the chairman of the committee for the Kaiser Friedrich monument, the former chancellor and city councillor Wilhelm Flindt. In order to eliminate the "bad mood" caused by the demolition of the old Schiller monument, the Committee for the Kaiser Friedrich Monument decided to provide financial support through donations and proceeds from ticket sales for the creation of a new Schiller monument. Soon around 10,000 marks were already available. Joseph Uphues offered to create a beautiful monument to the poet in bronze or marble for 30,000 marks.