WE have seen in a former paper the care with which Goethe has pointed out the way to discover the answer to the question, What is Faust ? In his letters he returns to the subject again and again, ...

He was a lawyer, a scientist and a theater manager, just to name a few of Goethe's hats. On the 70th anniversary of the Goethe dictionary, we look at why Germany's most famous writer was about more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a four-part Aspen Journalism series on Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s visit to Aspen, where he gave the keynote address at the Goethe Bicentennial of 1949 and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was and is a cultural colossus, a figure to rank alongside Dante and Shakespeare.

Germany's international cultural institution was created after World War II. For President Carola Lentz, its history is marked by permanent reinvention. The Goethe-Institut is "a chameleon." That's ...

The following is the second 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, ...