*Goethe pondering history and historians. This is "Weimar Classicism" talking to history, making the case for itself. *We're posterity, so we can hear this. There's something sad and touching about it ...

After Germany was unified, we got Sturm, Drang, Weimar Classicism and Goethe. Theater had a slow start in Germany, mainly because Germany wasn't a thing until *relatively* recent times. After Germany ...

Weimar is known as home to poets and philosophers. 3.5 million tourists a year visit the city in Thüringen to retrace Goethe's footsteps. Germany's most famous poet spent fifty years in his house on ...

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 ...