Biography
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and color.
Goethe took up residence in Weimar in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). He was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, in 1782. Goethe was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe became a member of the Duke's privy council (1776–1785), sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace.Goethe's first major scientific work, the Metamorphosis of Plants, was published after he returned from a 1788 tour of Italy. In 1791 he was made managing director of the theatre at Weimar, and in 1794 he began a friendship with the dramatist, historian, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, whose plays he premiered until Schiller's death in 1805. During this period Goethe published his second novel, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; the verse epic Hermann and Dorothea, and, in 1808, the first part of his most celebrated drama, Faust. His conversations and various shared undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come to be collectively termed Weimar Classicism.
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer named Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship one of the four greatest novels ever written, while the American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson selected Goethe as one of six "representative men" in his work of the same name (along with Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Montaigne, Napoleon, and Shakespeare). Goethe's comments and observations form the basis of several biographical works, notably Johann Peter Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe (1836). His poems were set to music by many composers including Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler.
Filmography
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Mephisto's House of Ill Repute (2021)
Goethes Faust (2020)
The Last Faust (2019)
Le songe de Lady Hamilton (2018)
Der Zauberlehrling (2017)
Erlkönig (2016)
Mefistofele (2016)
The Metropolitan Opera: Werther (2014)
Gounod: Faust (2011)
The Damnation of Faust (2011)
Faust (2011)
Massenet: Werther (2010)
Sometime in August (2009)
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2008)
Werther (2008)
Faust (2006)
Werther (2005)
Faust (2004)
The Erl-King (2003)
The ErlKing (2003)
.com for Murder (2002)
666: In Bed with the Devil (2002)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II (2001)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I (2001)
Gladiators: Bloodsport of the Colisseum (2001)
Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)
Clavigo (1999)
The Damnation of Faust (1999)
Elective Affinities (1996)
A Dream, What Else? (1995)
Faust (1994)
Hölderlin-Comics (1994)
Devil, I'm Bored (1993)
Werther (1990)
Reineke Fuchs (1989)
Mefistofele (1989)
Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle (1988)
Werther (1986)
Tarot (1986)
Torquato Tasso (1985)
Werther (1985)
Faust (1985)
The Night (1985)
Les Affinités électives (1983)
Egmont (1982)
Stella (1982)
Stella (1982)
Clavijo (1982)
Faust (1982)
Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand (1979)
Clavigo (1978)
Elective Affinities (1978)
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1976)
Novelle (1976)
The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics (1976)
Diary (1975)
Wrong Move (1975)
The Elective Affinities (1974)
Der Prokurator oder Die Liebe der schönen Bianca (1972)
Clavigo (1970)
Faust auf eigene Faust (1970)
Genius (1970)
Faust (1969)
Werther (1968)
Egmont (1967)
Stella (1967)
Die Mitschuldigen (1967)
Stella (1966)
Stella (1966)
My Soul for a Love (1964)
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (1962)
Egmont (1962)
Hermann und Dorothea (1961)
Der Groß-Cophta (1960)
Faust (1960)
Damn Yankees (1958)
Faustina (1957)
Götz von Berlichingen (1955)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1955)
Appointment with Satan (1955)
Faust and the Devil (1949)
Begegnung mit Werther (1949)
Ambassador of Hell (1945)
Čarodějův učeň (1943)
The Tale of the Fox (1941)
The Novel of Werther (1938)
The Erlkönig (1931)
The Erl King (1931)
Faust (1926)
Götz von Berlichingen zubenannt mit der eisernen Hand (1925)
Werther (1922)
Mignon (1915)
Erlkönigs Töchter (1914)
Petit Faust (1910)
Faust (1910)
Faust (1909)
Faust and Marguerite (1904)
Faust and Mephistopheles (1903)
Faust and Marguerite (1900)
Faust and Mephistopheles (1898)
The Royal Opera House: Faust
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GenderMale
Birthday1749-08-28
Deathday1832-03-22 (82 years old)
Birth NameJohann Wolfgang Goethe
Birth PlaceFrankfurt, Germany
ReligionLutheranism
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ChildrenAugust von Goethe
FatherJohann Caspar Goethe
MotherCatharina Elisabeth Goethe
SiblingsCornelia Schlosser
RelativesPeter im Baumgarten
CitizenshipsSaxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Also Known AsИоганн Вольфганг фон Гёте
AwardsGrand Cross of the House Order of the White Falcon, Knight Commander of the Order of Leopold (Austria), Order of Saint Anna, 1st class, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown
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