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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long before the internet, the German literary giant had a cult following among young people for a novel that was consumed like social media posts. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novella "The Sorrows of ...

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 ...

The work of the Goethe-Institut in the US is based on collaboration with partners. From individual projects to more long-term cooperation, we affiliate ourselves with advocates on the cultural scene ...

The following is the first 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, ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) dominated the European intellectual world in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He might well be said to have been the last Renaissance Man—poet, novelist, ...

When Germany’s Goethe Institute in Hamburg first approached Moshtari Hilal to participate in a conference examining how right-wing groups manipulate social media, the Afghan-German artist warily ...

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 third 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, ...