Tag: Goethe
Stephan Oswald: “In the shadow of the father – August von Goethe” – culture
From Gustav Seibt The philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte wrote the following admonition to the young August, Goethe’s son, in the family book: “The nation has great demands on you, only…
Anna Louisa Karsch in Halberstadt: Goethe admired her lines
Three hundred years ago, Anna Louisa Karsch was the first woman in Germany who was able to make a living from writing. Visit to an exhibition in Halberstadt. source site
Goethe Biography by Jeremy Adler – Culture
When Rüdiger Safranski published his biography of Goethe ten years ago, he gave it the subtitle “Artwork of Life”. It is true that literary works were also mentioned in this…
Henriette Kaiser: Goethe in Buenos Aires – culture
What’s it like living in two worlds, one of which is lost forever? How does it feel to be part of a culture you were expelled from and to live…
Georg Schmidt’s study “Through Beauty to Freedom” – Culture
The later so-called Weimar classic was not simply a sociable circle of select spirits who gathered around a generous princely house for free conversation and constant intellectual production. This imagination,…
Goethe Medals awarded in Weimar: change through art – culture
Two men and a bed, that’s all. The bed is even just a bed frame. No feathers, no pillows. Braided hemp rope replaces the slatted frame. The two men are…
Cultural award: Prize winners from Africa and India honored with the Goethe Medal
culture award Prize winners from Africa and India honored with the Goethe Medal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (centre) and Goethe-Institut President Carola Lentz (r) with the award winners: Nimi Ravindran…
When Goethe writes a WhatsApp – Munich
Now that everyone is traveling, possibly even to Thuringia, is a good opportunity to commemorate Goethe again. There, on a little mountain called Kickelhahn, he scrawled a few verses in…
Goethe Medal for Mohamad Abla: retreat into abstraction – culture
Egypt was in turmoil when Mohamed Abla was first met, and the artist, weary but combative, protested on the steps of the Ministry of Culture in Cairo. It was 2013,…
Henriette Kaiser’s book “Goethe in Buenos Aires” – Munich
The first impression of Buenos Aires? “Above all, trouble,” says Liesel Bein and laughs. Her family, who fled from the Nazis on a long ship trip to Argentina in 1939,…