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Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever.

Faust is a tragic play in two parts that reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant but disillusioned scholar who makes a deal with the devil. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's masterpiece and the greatest work of German literature. Part I sets out Faust’s despair, his pact with Mephistopheles, and his love for Gretchen. Part II deals with Faust’s life at court, the wooing and winning of Helen of Troy, and his purification and redemption.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.

The Sorrows of Young Werther is a loosely based autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was first published in 1774 and is one of the most famous-and infamous-works in the history of literature. Werther, a sensitive young man falls in love with Lotte, a sweet-natured girl he meets while visitng an idyllic German village. Although Lotte is betrothed to Albert, Werther’s infatuation with her torments him to the point of despair and suicide.

Ein visionäres Epos zwischen Mythen, Liebe & Erlösung – Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil als ungekürztes Hörbuch, gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Über das Hörbuch: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe vollendet mit dem zweiten Teil seines Faust das größte Drama der deutschen Literatur: Ein philosophisch-poetisches, mythendurchwirktes Meisterwerk über menschliche Sehnsucht, Macht, Erkenntnis und Erlösung. Gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche, wortgewaltig und nuanciert.

Johann Wolfang von Goethe - Dichterfürst und Freigeist. Der Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zum wichtigsten deutschen Schriftsteller und Universalgelehrten Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) ist in Frankfurt am Main geboren und gilt als bedeutendster deutscher Dichter und vielseitiges Genie, seine Werke gehören zur Weltliteratur.

Composed almost entirely of letters written by Werther to his friend Wilhelm, The Sorrows of Young Werther is a heartbreaking narrative about a doomed love. Werther, a young artist driven more by the heart than by reason, is already enraptured with the elusive Charlotte when she marries another man better suited to her class. To keep Charlotte near, Werther befriends her husband - a bid that becomes a torturous reminder of all he's lost.

Wenn Deutschlands größter Dichter und Deutschlands bekannteste Stimme zusammenkommen, so ist das ein großer Glücksmoment für den Hörer. Denn wer könnte Goethes Figuren treffender charakterisieren, seine Sprachkunst funkelnder zur Geltung bringen, seine Gedanken souveräner nachvollziehen als der große Goethe-Interpret Gert Westphal? Es scheint, Goethe hat beim Schreiben dieser Worte schon den König der Vorleser vor sich gesehen.

Faust is one of the pillars of Western literature. This classic drama presents the story of the scholar Faust, tempted into a contract with the Devil in return for a life of sensuality and power. Enjoyment rules, until Faust’s emotions are stirred by a meeting with Gretchen, and the tragic outcome brings Part 1 to an end. Part 2, written much later in Goethe’s life, places his eponymous hero in a variety of unexpected circumstances, causing him to reflect on humanity and its attitudes to life and death.

In Wahlverwandtschaften entfaltet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ein vielschichtiges Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen vier Menschen, deren Leben sich durch innere und äußere Anziehung dramatisch verändert. Mit psychologischer Tiefe, gesellschaftlicher Schärfe und symbolischer Dichte erzählt Goethe von der Macht der Gefühle – und deren Grenzen im Spannungsfeld von Ehe, Freiheit und Konvention. Ein zentrales Werk der Weltliteratur und bis heute viel diskutiert.

Sie glauben Goethe zu kennen? Von wegen! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) ist ein blitzgescheiter Tausendsassa und Draufgänger, den gesellschaftliche Normen wenig kümmern. Als Student trägt er schrille Kleidung und zecht bis zur Erschöpfung. Er schreibt provokante Literatur und wird zum reichen Popstar. Als Weimarer Minister badet er nackt im Fluß, probiert obskure Heilverfahren aus, reitet nachts allein durch dunkle Wälder und lebt mit seiner Geliebten und den gemeinsamen Kindern 18 Jahre lang in wilder Ehe.

This is the second half of the novel by Goethe (the first half, Volume 1, has been recorded separately). It describes the completion of Meister's development as a person in the world - Summary by Peter Tucker

The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theater, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society. The edition being read is divided into two volumes. This is Volume 1. - Summary by Wikipedia

Goethe as a novelist is best known for two earlier novels, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1796). But Elective Affinities, which was published in 1809, is widely regarded as his mature masterpiece, not least because of its unusual provenance, which...

A short collection of Ballads by the German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe based on German and other European and Asian legends(Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Enter a library of striving souls, restless hearts, and luminous thought. The Goethe Library presents the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read in full, inviting listeners into worlds where love contends with duty, nature speaks in symbols, and the human spirit reaches ever onward toward wisdom, beauty, and the infinite.

A passionate young artist falls disastrously in love with a woman he can never truly have. What begins as longing soon becomes obsession, drawing him deeper into a world where beauty, desire, and despair are impossible to separate. Set against the restless intensity of youth, The Sorrows of Young Werther is a timeless portrait of emotional excess — the kind of love that feels larger than life and more dangerous because of it.

Faust is a tragic play in two parts that reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant but disillusioned scholar who makes a deal with the devil. it is widely considered to be Goethe's masterpiece and the greatest work of German literature. The novel Elective Affinities is the story of Eduard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple enjoying an idyllic but rather dull life on their rural estate. They invite the Captain, Eduard's childhood friend, and Ottilie, the orphaned niece of Charlotte, to live with them, with tragic results.

Werther, duygularını sonuna kadar yaşayan genç bir adamdır. Bir kır kasabasında tanıştığı Lotte’ye âşık olur; ancak Lotte’nin hayatında çoktan verilmiş bir söz, kurulmuş bir düzen vardır. Bu imkânsız aşk, Werther’in iç dünyasında büyüyen bir fırtınaya dönüşür: Hayranlık, umut, kıskançlık ve çaresizlik… Mektuplarla ilerleyen anlatı, bir kalbin adım adım nasıl daraldığını ve duyguların insanı nasıl hem yüceltip hem de yıkabildiğini çarpıcı biçimde gösterir.

Goethe, der wohl größte deutsche Dichter, beherrschte auch die Prosa. In dieser Hörbuch-Box sind zahlreiche Meisterwerke versammelt: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (Track 1-14), Der Prokurator (Track 15), Die Sängerin Antonelli (Track 16), Die wunderlichen Nachbarskinder (Track 17), Die Geschichte von Mignons Eltern (Track 18), Die neue Melusine (Track 19), Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Track 20-55), Novelle (Track 56), Maximen und Reflexionen (Track 57-61). Von der Novelle über den Roman bis hin zu Aphorismen - es ist alles dabei, nach Erscheinungsdaten sortiert!