Goethes Briefwechsel Mit Einem Kinde

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bettina von Arnim, Jonas Fränkel

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310 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1835

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

[Leah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bettina von Arnim: "Eine wahnsinnige Blutwurst" schreibt ne Goethe-Fanfiction.
Wahnsinnige Blutwurst, soll laut Wikipedia übrigens Goethes Frau zu ihr gesagt haben und ich werde dieses Zitat ab heute in meinen Wortschatz der Beleidigungen aufnehmen. Es ist nun bekannt, dass dieses Buch keineswegs eine Goethe oder von Arnim Biografie darstellt, in der alles der absoluten Wahrheit entspricht, sondern Bettina von Arnim stark fiktionalisierte. Allein das ist es, was ich an den Romantikern feierlich finde, dieses Spiel des Überschreiten von Genregrenzen und Fiktionalitätsgrenzen.
Man muss natürlich ihren Stil mögen, der eben sehr der Zeit entspricht und damit für den heutigen Geschmack wohl etwas sentimental wirken konnte. Ich zumindest konnte dem Buch als ein Zeitzeugnis viel abgewinnen. Unter anderem, dass ich jetzt wirklich die Gedichte von Karoline Günderode lesen muss.

[Armin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sicherlich fünf Sterne für den Status als psychologisches Studienmaterial, sonst hält sich der Erkenntniswert und der Lesegenuss in engen Grenzen.