We recall Goethe writing The Sorrows of Young Werther, which set off a wave of suicides in Europe in imitation of the eponymous hero. |
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You get that early romanticism of Goethe, the Sturm und Drang giving way to something a bit more restrained. |
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But at the same time, and often in stark contrast to Goethe, Schiller displayed an inextinguishable sense of the tragic. |
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Goethe employs the fiction that an editor-figure publishes, with an epilogue, the authentic letters of a young man who commits suicide. |
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In the meantime, a string quartet from Hamburg gave a concert in Rome at the Goethe Institute. |
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That Goethe is looking at parts of the same organism, while Darwin is treating of entire organismic forms of related groups is beside the point. |
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The young Goethe was himself madly in love with a woman named Charlotte Buff, who was to be married to his friend, Georg Kestner. |
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The German ambassador and the director of the Goethe Institut rode on tilburies with the immense crowd on each side of the street welcoming them. |
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Goethe argued that when the three primary colors were combined their unity contained the whole chromatic scale. |
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His series of prints devoted to Poe, Goethe, Flaubert and Baudelaire are dreamlike evocations of their texts. |
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There has been very significant collaboration with the Goethe Institute, to make it possible for the show to be presented in Ottawa and Montreal. |
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This includes organizations such as the Goethe Institute, IATA, the British Council and the National Tourist Office of Greece. |
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A passionate Germanophile, his translations of Schiller, Goethe, and other German Romantics were profoundly influential on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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He goes on to extol especially the epigrammatic power of the elegiac distich by translating numerous specimens from the elegiac writings of Goethe and Schiller. |
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Mildred spent the last month of her life translating works of Goethe in her cell. |
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His contemporary, Goethe, was sojourning in Strassburg at that time, where he was cultivating a love affair. |
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Pushkin is personally present in Russian culture in a way that has no parallel, for instance, in the posthumous lives of Shakespeare, Dante, or Goethe. |
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You never heard reference to your grandfather as a book lover, and only a book lover would read Goethe. |
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That was the right organ, for it was not only with his brain that he loved Schiller, Heine, Goethe and the others. |
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German today is peppered with borrowings from English and, despite some mutterings, there are no official attempts to purify the tongue of Goethe and Grass. |
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From Berlin, Bill Allen reports on how Germans are digging in against what they see as an unmitigated attack on the language of Goethe and Schiller. |
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This is a great help to me because I am doing a course at the Goethe Institute, but other people may find it a little difficult. |
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Here he allegorizes good and evil, much more in the manner of Spenser or Goethe than that of his American literary contemporaries Melville or Poe. |
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The Goethe Institut presents four films about Sasha Waltz, one of Germany's most important and provocative choreographers. |
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As Goethe once said, those things that matter most should never be at the mercy of those things that matter least. |
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With his ennoblement Goethe might be thought to have reached the pinnacle of his career. |
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Architecture is frozen music, Goethe wrote, and to my mind cities are, too. |
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But Goethe and Kundera are probably right to suppose that there are limits to the quest for speed. |
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For example, you will find the works of Goethe in French, Polish and Hungarian, but not in German. |
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The then director of the Goethe passed up no opportunity to ridicule my Swissisms. |
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Theater companies produced plays by great German writers such as Goethe and Schiller, as well as National Socialist dramas. |
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Historically, Iranian literature has inspired writers such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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This was praised by Goethe and others for the delicacy of its depiction of a father reprimanding his daughter. |
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Although Samuel Taylor Coleridge had also been a proponent of Schiller, Carlyle's efforts on behalf of Schiller and Goethe would bear fruit. |
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For me, as a child, it was Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Then in university I fell in love with One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, then Tolstoy, then Goethe. |
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Whatever a man really is, he is so esteemed and named by Goethe in Faust, quite disregardless of any conventional titles or obloquys he bears. |
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He also constructed the IG Farben building, a massive corporate headquarters, now the main building of Goethe University in Frankfurt. |
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Kandinsky's first nonfigurative watercolour was painted in 1910, and in the same year he wrote much of Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which converted the aesthetic doctrines of Goethe to the purposes of the new art. |
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A little later, in 1770s Germany, Johann von Goethe was romancing Charlotte von Stein by insisting that his solitary walks and moody lonesomeness were all because of his fixation on her. |
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Kant, Schiller, and Goethe were all brought up in the pietistic tradition. |
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But Bernd Kaufmann, artistic director of Weimar as European Capital of Culture in 1999, was determined to win Barenboim's support for the city of Goethe, come what may. |
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Disappointed in life and embittered by the lack of recognition accorded him by his contemporaries, particularly Goethe, he came to know an incurably sick woman, Henriette Vogel, who begged him to kill her. |
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These days the city is almost as famous for its stinking mounds of uncollected rubbish as for the bay and the volcano that delighted Goethe and many other visitors before and since. |
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Necromancy was especially popular in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its temptations and perils were vividly described in the Faust stories of Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. |
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The reality, naturally, in no way corresponded to that ideal the Weimar court was petty, backbiting, and snobbish but in Charlotte von Stein, the wife of the duke's equerry, Goethe thought he saw the ideal embodied. |
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ReprintsOn the other hand, didn't Goethe encourage Johann Peter Eckermann, the tireless amanuensis he met in 1823 whom he knew was recording his words for posterity? |
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Victoria Frith, Newcastle Five people: Picasso, Goya, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and a writer, perhaps I'll say Goethe, because I know he was an interesting conversationalist and I don't know much about him. |
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Like stars in Europe's intellectual firmament stand the fiery eyes of Dante, the clear eyes of Shakespeare, the cheerful eyes of Goethe and the tormented eyes of Dostojewski. |
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In addition to his own poetical and prose works, he also accomplished brilliant translations of Goethe, Shakespeare, Shelley, Keats, and Verlaine. |
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Not even Goethe or Tolstoy was quite so omnicompetent. |
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Mr Müller-Esterl hopes the university will build its puny €125m endowment up to €5 billion-6 billion. But Goethe is not immune to German ailments. |
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At any rate, note the cynics, it will mean double entrance money. Nifty ideas, of course, but will they and the rest of the birthday shindigs really make Goethe easier to fathom? |
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Do not download the wrong version on the author's site, the first link is the German version, but an English version exists for those of you who have a poor grasp of the language of Goethe. |
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It was a huge hit in the land of Goethe, where throughout the spring of 2010 the dark diva had been on a tour that also took in Austria and Denmark. |
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At first sight, Goethe does not seem to have understood what was at stake. |
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Now that the construction of a new Europe has eliminated the danger of a conflict occurring in this part of the old continent, there is no need to set Hugo against Goethe. |
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This prize was endowed by a German patron of the Goethe Foundation to reward outstanding efforts by individuals or organizations in the cause of European integration. |
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Among those who championed him were the writers Voltaire, Goethe, Stendhal, and Victor Hugo. |
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Among the most well known German poets and authors are Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Hoffmann, Brecht and Heine. |
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Goethe incorporated his translation of a part of the work into his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. |
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German as a foreign language is promoted by the Goethe Institute, which works to promote German language and culture worldwide. |
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Racine in France and Goethe in Germany revived Greek drama, reworking the ancient myths. |
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A poignant retelling of this event based on what Goethe had personally witnessed can be found in his long poem Hermann and Dorothea. |
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Among the most admired German poets and authors are Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Hoffmann, Brecht, Heine and Schmidt. |
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Moreover, at this time he penned articles appraising the life and works of various poets and men of letters, including Goethe, Voltaire and Diderot. |
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Between 1800 and 1805 he studied at various places in Germany, meeting men of letters there, including Goethe, Schiller, Johann Gottfried Herder and Christoph Martin Wieland. |
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Voltaire, the French Encyclopedists, Condorcet, Comte, and German naturalists like Goethe, tried to discover a science-based substitute for religion. |
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Having been raised partly on German culture, Louis read and appreciated the writings of Goethe and Schiller, and his favorite composers were Beethoven and Schumann. |
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Early German national culture was developed through literary and religious figures including Martin Luther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. |
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This led to Romantic rejections of this in favor of pictures of the emotional side and individuality of humans, exemplified in the novels of Goethe. |
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Another burgher, interrupted in her reading of Goethe, might fling open her second-floor shutter and toss a panful of hot water dogward, cursing in a guttural German. |
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