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Dichtung und Wahrheit. Erster und zweiter Teil
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436 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1947
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
13.3k books6,942 followersA 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.
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.
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December 2, 2018
Die erste Hälfte fand ich sehr spannend und inspirierend. Goethes Leben ist Beispiel und Vorbild, etwas, woran man sich hochziehen kann, selbst, wenn man eine etwas andere Stoßrichtung hat.
Da ich noch mit keiner Biographie über Goethe vertraut bin, vermag ich nicht zu sagen, wo die Grenzen von Wahrheit und Dichtung hier verlaufen. Ich las nur irgendwo, dass Goethe bei seiner Autobiographie gerne auch ein paar Sachen "erlogen" hat.
Besonders gefiel mir, seinen Bildungsweg nachzuvollziehen, seine erste Liebeserfahrung und einen Eindruck von dem sozialen Umfeld zu bekommen, in dem er sich bewegte. Die historischen Umstände des siebenjährigen Krieges interessierten mich nur sekundär. Gleichwohl war interessant, wie die Einquartierung der Franzosen im Hause Goethes ablief.
Ich bin gespannt auf den dritten und vierten Teil und habe auch Lust anschließend eine Biographie (vielleicht jene von Safranski) Goethes zu lesen.
Da ich noch mit keiner Biographie über Goethe vertraut bin, vermag ich nicht zu sagen, wo die Grenzen von Wahrheit und Dichtung hier verlaufen. Ich las nur irgendwo, dass Goethe bei seiner Autobiographie gerne auch ein paar Sachen "erlogen" hat.
Besonders gefiel mir, seinen Bildungsweg nachzuvollziehen, seine erste Liebeserfahrung und einen Eindruck von dem sozialen Umfeld zu bekommen, in dem er sich bewegte. Die historischen Umstände des siebenjährigen Krieges interessierten mich nur sekundär. Gleichwohl war interessant, wie die Einquartierung der Franzosen im Hause Goethes ablief.
Ich bin gespannt auf den dritten und vierten Teil und habe auch Lust anschließend eine Biographie (vielleicht jene von Safranski) Goethes zu lesen.
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