Die Mitschuldigen: Ein Lustspiel in einem Akte

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Mitschuldigen. "Ein Lustspiel in einem Akte"

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2013

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

Erste Fassung. Entstanden 1768/69. Erstdruck dieser Fassung in: Bausteine (Halle), 1909. Urauffuhrung am 30.11.1776 in Weimar.

Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Berliner Ausgabe. Herausgegeben von Siegfried Seidel: Poetische Werke [Band 1-16]; Kunsttheoretische Schriften und Ubersetzungen [Band 17-22], Berlin: Aufbau, 1960 ff.

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion

Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Gemalde von Georg Melchior Kraus, 1775

Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 10 pt.

Genres: Classics, German Literature, Plays, Fiction

52 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1787

About the author

A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.

George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .

With this key figure of German literature, the movement of Weimar classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries coincided with Enlightenment, sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours , he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. He also long served as the privy councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar.

Goethe took great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, and Arabia and originated the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"). Despite his major, virtually immeasurable influence on German philosophy especially on the generation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, he expressly and decidedly refrained from practicing philosophy in the rarefied sense.

Influence spread across Europe, and for the next century, his works inspired much music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Many persons consider Goethe the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in western culture as well. Early in his career, however, he wondered about painting, perhaps his true vocation; late in his life, he expressed the expectation that people ultimately would remember his work in optics.

Reviews

[Alden Veazey · Rating 3 out of 5]

"I know you still love me and that alone will kill me."
blumig af, kann mir gar nicht vorstellen, wie sein Gehirn alles in Alexandriner formuliert hat.
much to think about.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Written in rimes, certainly fun to read, and seems to be quiet unknown.
Just four characters and a inn.

[Andreas Madlow · Rating 3 out of 5]

Schlimmes Ende

[Milan Kovačević · Rating 5 out of 5]

Was kann man über das Buch sagen, wenn alles über Gete gesagt hat.

[Ahmed]

ترجمة د/مصطفي ماهر

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. It was funny and the writing was great. Good if you are looking for an easy and relaxing read.