The biographer of a truly world-historical writer finds his work weighted with a double burden. He must trace how his subject’s private passions and follies gave rise to original art, and he must show ...

Goethe’s initiative blurred boundaries between private salon and public concert life, anticipating later house concert ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's hard to imagine now, but Iran and Germany were once surprisingly close. A master poet, a German "Lawrence of Arabia," and an empress all played a role in this shared history.Germany and Iran have ...

There have been very few Renaissance men since the Renaissance—and they weren’t exactly thick on the ground even in their glory days. No modern figure is more worthy of that appellation than Johann ...

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 ...

Goethe-Institut Bangladesh is celebrating the grand re-opening of its newly renovated premises (House 10, Road 9, Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka) on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, marking a significant milestone in ...

The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, operating worldwide. It promotes knowledge ...