Goethe

Louisa May Alcott and Goethe Johan Wolfgang von Goethe was one of the most praised German authors of his time. Louisa May Alcott was a big Goethe fan. Louisa was a transcendentalist. The whole world view of the transcendentalists could be described as a nature-centric form of Christianity and it was based on German philosophy…

Note: this essay is written as part of Goethe’s Writing Competition titled “Identity”. When answering „What is my identity?“, there are so many possibilities to answer this question. For example, I can say that my name is Timothy. I can also say that “I am a master student at the…

In the late summer of 2021, I was elected Chairman of the Board of Management, which made me enormously happy to have been given this trust. However, with the new position also came new tasks, which I underestimated in any case at the beginning. We were finally a registered association…

Automatic Writing — Who’s Doing It? A new article by Brenden Weber contains this quote from Goethe: “I wrote a book almost unconsciously, like a somnambulist, and was amazed when I realized what I had done”. This immediately made me think of the parapsychological phenomenon of automatic writing, and the…

After we knew, what we needed to do, we started with our mission, to get ready and prepared until the end of 2020. We started to finish our statutes together, added a few things which we wanted to have in it, and then had again a poll if everybody is…

A delicate dive into the wisdom of the eastern and western philosophical cannons — only to find a shared remedy to overthinking, and inspiration for facing uncertainty with courage. What did Arjuna and Faust have in common? At first sight, this question may appear vacuous and contrived. After all, what…

We arrive at a very centrally important theme to Goethe’s theory of color, which is again based on the interplay between dark and light and that is where colors are born. …

Liberal Arts Blog — Thursday is the Joy of Music Day Today’s Topic: Der Erlkonig: Goethe (1747–1832). Schubert (1797–1828). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925–2012) The greatest of classic German songs (“lieder”) is “Der Erlkonig” (the King of the Fairies) with words by the greatest of all German writers (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)…

A poem by Louise Ackermann Louise-Victorine Ackermann (née Choquet)was born in Paris in 1813. She was encouraged by her father to educate herself, and was an avid reader of the English and German poets, Shakespeare, Byron, Goethe, Schiller, on top of French favourites like Hugo, de Musset and Alfred de…