THIS is GOETHE, with a forehead Like the fabled front of Jove; In its massive lines the tokens More of majesty than love. This is SCHILLER, in whose features, With their passionate calm regard, We ...

“THESE twenty years the public has been contending as to which is the greater, Schiller or I ; they ought rather to be glad that they have a brace of such fellows to quarrel about. ” These words, ...

The one hundredth anniversary of the death of Schiller was celebrated yesterday by literary exercises in the Fogg Lecture Room in the afternoon and by a theatrical performance given in Sanders Theatre ...

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the small Thuringian town of Weimar witnessed a remarkable cultural flowering, attracting many writers and scholars, notably Goethe and Schiller. This ...

That the genius of General Ludndorf, defeated leader of the militaristic Germany, and now leader of the German anti-Semites, is equal to the genius of Goethe and Schiller, the leading spirits of ...

BIELSCHOWSKY'S LIFE OF GOETHE; New Light on Great Dramatist's Life -- His Romances -- His Wife Not Idealized -- Neglect of His Mother -- The Schiller Friendship -- Deference to Napoleon. - The New ...

Not surprisingly, Weimar is a tourist destination. Small and walkable, with history on every corner. Home of the German National Theatre and some 20 other landmarks and museums, it is the town of ...

Tennyson’s friend Arthur Hallam was a great admirer of Goethe and Schiller. At the time of Hallam’s early death in 1833, Tennyson, too, was preoccupied with these two authors, and his interest in them ...

Last Sunday, as I watched the nice German drama Nowhere in Africa (Zeitgeist) win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, I could imagine Spike Lee saying, “Wouldn’t you know it? First movie set in ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer, circa 1800. By Karl Joseph von Stieler (1781-1858). (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is the ...