Last name: Goethe
Name/names: Johann, Wolfgang
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Born: 28 August 1749 (Frankfurt, Germany)
Died: 22 March 1832 (Weimar, Germany)
Category: Literature.
Goethe Johann Wolfgang – ur. 28.VIII.1749 in Frankfurt am Main, He died on 22.III.1832 in Weimar, outstanding poet, Dramaturg, German prose writer and essayist, najbardziej reprezentatywny przedstawiciel ruchu storm and pressure
(pre -romanticism) and German classicism. He came from a wealthy bourgeois family. He graduated in Legal Studies in Leipzig; friendly with Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), literature theoretician and cultural philosopher, postulating a reference to folk tradition and creating a bond between literature and the whole nation; w latach późniejszych w bliskiej przyjaźni z Schillerem. From 1775 At the invitation of Prince Karol Augusta, he settles in Weimar, where it performs many public functions, among others. Minister of Finance, He works closely with the theater. Huge literary achievements, including lyrical poems, ballads, epop, novel, dramas, autobiography and correspondence, falls on two periods. First (promising romanticism) okres storm and pressure
, violent protest against the limitations of old feudal structures and the old model of court literature – Then they arise, among others. love hymns, First dramas, m.in. komedia Whim, a przede wszystkim The suffering of young Werther (1774), Epistolar novel, which brought great publicity to the writer as a young generation dilemma. The second period of creativity remains under the influence of reading the works of ancient masters; Goethe then rejects the pre -romantic poetics, initiating the era of German classicism, m.in. as the author of the dramas: Ifigena in Taurida (1787), Torquato Tasso (1789), a zwłaszcza Faust, work, which he almost worked on breaks 60 years (1773-1831, Part I published. 1808, part II Opubl. after death, 1832). He also published educational novels: Years of Wilhelm Meistra's teaching (1796), Years of Wilhelm Meistra's journey (1821-29), powieść Affinities by choice (1809), epop: Przecher fox (1794), Herman i Dorota (1797).