A University of Chicago scholar who is one of the world’s foremost experts in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has been honored with an award named for the renowned German intellectual. Prof. David E.

THE consciousness that biography is a particular and a difficult art is borne in upon us when we stop to consider how few, how very few, of our really heroic figures have been set before us in ...

In 1772, we find the young German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe flunking out of law school and getting drunk with his friends. He’s a free spirit trapped in a stringent world where class is everything.

There have been very few Renaissance men since the Renaissance—and they weren’t exactly thick on the ground even in their glory days. No modern figure is more worthy of that appellation than Johann ...

In the autumn of 1792, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe went to war against France in the service of a coalition of German armies. The war aimed to protect the monarchs of old Europe from the menace of the ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a four-part Aspen Journalism series on Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s visit to Aspen, where he gave the keynote address at the Goethe Bicentennial of 1949 and ...

Join us in honouring the life and legacy of renowned German choreographer and dancer Tanja Liedtke, whose work left a lasting mark on the dance scenes in Germany, Australia, and around the world. In ...

The Casa di Goethe in Rome opened an exhibition at the end of last month entitled Italy in lines – Master drawings by ...