1811-1812. A rich autumn of grape harvesting, of golden forests and red sunset skies. The last but two symphonies and the last violin sonata. Lovely declining days and latter-day loves. And the ...
IN reading Grimm’s Life and Times of Goethe 1 we have wondered anew at that defect of the great man’s nature which renders him, to us, an almost incomprehensible, half-human being, — we mean the ...
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‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish
As a young man, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding ...
Goethe: His Faustian Life; By A.N. Wilson; Bloomsbury; 416 pp., $35.00 Yet, as theologian Natalie K. Watson recently put it in the Church Times, a British publication, Goethe is likely to be “the ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer, circa 1800. By Karl Joseph von Stieler (1781-1858). (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is the ...
The Neighborhood Interpretive Center is a hyperlocal neighborhood initiative of the Goethe-Institut in the diverse MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, launched in 2021. Each fall, there is an ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832), poet, novelist, dramatist, philosopher, naturalist and physicist, was a towering figure in German and world culture. His major works, including Götz von ...
Under the motto “Among Friends – Unter Freunden,” the Goethe-Institut USA is launching a nationwide campaign to celebrate and strengthen transatlantic friendship. Our programs are taking place all ...
The following is the first of a series of illuminating articles revealing Goethe’s lively interest in Jewry and things Yiddish, based upon excerpts from “Goethe and the Jews,” (G. P. Putman’s Sons, ...
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