/lit/ - Literature

do you read german? -> Poems
want romance? -> Sorrows of young Werther
want weimar classizism? -> Iphigenie on Tauris
magnus opus -> Faust
want old reflexive Goethe?-> Wilhelm Meister

Faust II is all you need.

Lotte in Weimar is all you need to read about Goethe

The Green Snake

>>9674484
Can you lads tell me more about him?

>>9675848
He was living the life. He was a statesman, a philosopher, a scientist, an accomplished playwright and a playboy.

Goethe was the alpha chad of the late 18th century. He hung with betas like Schiller though which puts him a little lower on my respect bar.

>>9675848
Spoiled brat who never had to work. I almost threw up reading his biography.

>>9675852
>>9675893
Didn't he also influence writers of the likes as Dostoevsky, Gogol, Kafka, etc., etc.? If so, whom else did influence?

>>9675901

well Nietzsche cites him as his biggest influence (his 'talks with Eckermann' were Nietzsche's favorite book)
other than that his influence is hardly measurable [he influence at least every german thinker that came after him]
he wrote the most important book of the romantic era when he was 23(?), he invented a new genre in the german literature (Sturm und Drang), he wrote THE german national epos (faust), he influenced the german language to this day PLUS he made some noteworthy scientific archievments (wrote an essay on colours, arguing against newton and an essay on botanic), oh and all the while he was a minister in Weimar.
oh almost forgot that he is arguably the best poet in the german language

Did any other writer have as much range to have written Werther and Faust?
I cant reconcile them.

>>9675950
based