National Research and Memorial Places of German Classical Literature Weimar

SOMÉ THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS EITHER BEFORE OR AFTER ONE'S VISÍT In this house were written large parts of "Faust", the two novels "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship", "Wilhelm Meister's Years oL Wandering" and "Kindred by Choice", the "West-Eastern Divan" and a wealth of other lvric, epic and...

The most magnificent testimonies of German poetry, the legacy of Goethe and Schiller, Herder, Wieland and many other poets will be found in the south-west of the GDR, in Weimar. Most of them belong to the classical epoch of German poetry, in which a national literature and a national theatre was...

Goethe and the house on the FrauenplanGoethe resided in the house on the Frauenplan from 1782 to 1789 and from 1792 to 1832, the year of his death, i. e. almost half a century. It was erected " as an ornament to the town" according to the stone inscription above the portal by the proprietor and...