Goethe: His Faustian Life; By A.N. Wilson; Bloomsbury; 416 pp., $35.00 Yet, as theologian Natalie K. Watson recently put it in the Church Times, a British publication, Goethe is likely to be “the ...

The Goethe-Institut's new building in Dakar champions sustainable architecture, made from the earth. Star architect Francis Kere has blended local materials with contemporary design.In Dakar, the ...

There have been very few Renaissance men since the Renaissance—and they weren’t exactly thick on the ground even in their glory days. No modern figure is more worthy of that appellation than Johann ...

The biographer and historian worships at the altar of the German writer and his magnum opus in an ambitious book that ties itself in knots In his 20s, AN Wilson was briefly a candidate for the ...

1811-1812. A rich autumn of grape harvesting, of golden forests and red sunset skies. The last but two symphonies and the last violin sonata. Lovely declining days and latter-day loves. And the ...

IN reading Grimm’s Life and Times of Goethe 1 we have wondered anew at that defect of the great man’s nature which renders him, to us, an almost incomprehensible, half-human being, — we mean the ...

Kéré Architecture completes the Goethe-Institut Dakar, a bioclimatic cultural hub in Senegal fostering exchange, creativity, ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832), poet, novelist, dramatist, philosopher, naturalist and physicist, was a towering figure in German and world culture. His major works, including Götz von ...

When Germany’s Goethe Institute in Hamburg first approached Moshtari Hilal to participate in a conference examining how right-wing groups manipulate social media, the Afghan-German artist warily ...

The following is the first of a series of illuminating articles revealing Goethe’s lively interest in Jewry and things Yiddish, based upon excerpts from “Goethe and the Jews,” (G. P. Putman’s Sons, ...