1. Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
Marina Arcos
Maria Esteban

2. BIOGRAPHY

3. 28th AUGUST 1749, FRANKFURT
Variety of styles:
AGE OF
8
16
1770 Strasburg
HERDERFriederike
Brion
WetzlarReturn to Frankfurt
The Sorrows
of Young
Werther
Lili Schönemann Manager: Court Theatre
Particle vonFAUST
22nd MARCH 1832, WEIMAR
● prose
● verse-drama
● memoirs

4. FAUST
Tragic , dramatic

5. THE STORY
Heinrich Faust
Memphistopheles
Gretchen
Valentin
Wanger
Several stages
Risk
God’s pardon
Sequence of scences
“Small world”
Complexity
Most difficult work
“Wide world”

6. German literature
Influence (Gretchenfrage)
1772-1775
(urfaust)
1806 1808 1832