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Lotte in Weimar

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Ausgangspunkt für Thomas Manns Goethe-Roman ist der historisch belegte Besuch Charlotte Kestners, Goethes unglücklicher Jugendliebe und Vorbild für die Figur der Lotte im 'Werther', 1816 in Weimar. In einer Mischung aus Fiktion und Wirklichkeit arrangiert Thomas Mann geschickt das Wiedertreffen zwischen Lotte und dem inzwischen berühmten Goethe. Es kommt zu Gesprächen, von denen sich Lotte Aufschluss über die frühere Leidenschaft erhofft. Gert Westphal gibt diesem Mann`schen Roman seine klangvolle Stimme.

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Published January 1, 1940

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Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.

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750 reviews51 followers
January 1, 2024
Alles zu dem Buch kann man auf Wikipedia nachlesen. Was mich faszinierte, war Manns Fähigkeit, mit einem Roman, der ein Treffen aus dem Jahr 1816 (historisch belegt!) behandelt, die Themen der Zeit (Nationalismus in Deutschland, Judenfeindlichkeit) und seine persönlichen Betrachtungen zum Thema des Genies, der Stellung desselben in der Gesellschaft, der Art, wie das Genie mit Welt umgeht zu behandeln.
Wirkliche Freude und eine Vielzahl an aha-Erlebnissen wird man gewinnen, wenn man sich mit Hilfe von z.B. Wikipedia und online Duden die Biografien der vielen historischen Figuren und deren Beziehung untereinander bzw. zu Goethe anschaut und auch den Bedeutungen der längst verschwundenen Begriffe aus dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert, die Mann verwendet, nachforscht.
Jetzt bin ich motivierten, den Werther wieder zu lesen.
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August 15, 2025
Cinci stele pentru că il face praf îl pe Goethe care, după ce am citit Convorbirile cu Goethe ale lui Eckermann mi-a devenit teribil de antipatic. Și ce modalitate deșteaptă folosește Thomas Mann ca să realizeze asta. Îi transformă în personaje ale cărții sale pe Eckermann, pe Lotte din Suferințele tânărului Werther și chiar pe fiul lui Goethe, August, și îi pune să-l vorbească de rău pe acesta.
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