*Goethe pondering history and historians. This is "Weimar Classicism" talking to history, making the case for itself. *We're posterity, so we can hear this. There's something sad and touching about it ...

This essay considers rumor and gossip in the making of Weimar Classicism (1786-1805). By linking rumor and gossip to Weimar's built environment around 1800, I demonstrate how the ideal of cultural ...

After Germany was unified, we got Sturm, Drang, Weimar Classicism and Goethe. Theater had a slow start in Germany, mainly because Germany wasn't a thing until *relatively* recent times. After Germany ...

This unit will examine the broad range of cultural life that Weimar experienced and promoted in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; we will combine reading literary works with an ...

In recent years, Weimar Classicism has again become the centerpiece of the canon in Germany. Its singularity, normativity, and timelessness are stressed, and classical Weimar seems to be used once ...

Weimar is known as home to poets and philosophers. 3.5 million tourists a year visit the city in Thüringen to retrace Goethe's footsteps. Germany's most famous poet spent fifty years in his house on ...