Goethe Etc.

 I have been on my small island in British Columbia since mid-June. It is a wonderful place to be, for the silence, the stillness of life, ...

For those of you wondering why Goethe Girl has not been posting, it is true that she came down with the dreaded virus. But that was not the ...

Over a month has passed without a posting on Goethe, which doesn't mean that Goethe Girl has been neglecting Goethe. Indeed, I am wrappi...

Arabesques. What does that word conjure up? For me, it is a ballet pose, as in the figures in the margins of the above watercolor drawing by...

Recruitenauslesung in Buttstädter Rathaus (1779) Indeed, it was in 1779 that Goethe, as a member of Carl August's council, really began...

  This post is a follow-up to the previous one, concerning Goethe’s appointment as director of the Weimar “War Commission,” in particular th...

Friedrich and Feldherr Bernhard Rode This post continues the subject of the preceding one, namely, Goethe’s acculturation to life in Weimar ...