WEIGSDORF-KOEBLITZ, Germany, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A German fee collection agency has sent mail addressed to poet Friedrich Schiller, who died in 1805, reminding him to pay his TV and radio license fee.
The fee collection agency, GEZ, apologized after the letters, addressed to "Mr. Friedrich Schiller," were mistakenly sent to an elementary school bearing his name in the town of Weigsdorf-Koeblitz, the BBC reported.
"We have to deal with such a huge amount of data, that something like this can happen, and the name Friedrich Schiller is not so unusual that it stood out as strange," a GEZ spokeswoman said.
The head teacher at Friedrich Schiller Primary School sent a letter to GEZ saying "the addressee is no longer in a position to listen to the radio or watch television."
Schiller, a poet and playwright, is best known internationally as the author of "Ode to Joy," which was set to music by Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony.
