Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was and is a cultural colossus, a figure to rank alongside Dante and Shakespeare.

The biographer of a truly world-historical writer finds his work weighted with a double burden. He must trace how his subject’s private passions and follies gave rise to original art, and he must show ...

1811-1812. A rich autumn of grape harvesting, of golden forests and red sunset skies. The last but two symphonies and the last violin sonata. Lovely declining days and latter-day loves. And the ...

Goethe: His Faustian Life; By A.N. Wilson; Bloomsbury; 416 pp., $35.00 Yet, as theologian Natalie K. Watson recently put it in the Church Times, a British publication, Goethe is likely to be “the ...

Explore the history of the Goethe-Institut and discover surprising, curious, and exciting moments from more than 70 years of cultural and language work worldwide. Once an exporter of culture, today a ...

The following is the first of a series of illuminating articles revealing Goethe’s lively interest in Jewry and things Yiddish, based upon excerpts from “Goethe and the Jews,” (G. P. Putman’s Sons, ...

The Neighborhood Interpretive Center is a hyperlocal neighborhood initiative of the Goethe-Institut in the diverse MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, launched in 2021. Each fall, there is an ...

Long before the internet, the German literary giant had a cult following among young people for a novel that was consumed like social media posts. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novella "The Sorrows of ...

Operavore keeps its finger on the pulse of the international opera scene. We offer news bulletins from the around the globe, previews of new recordings, and interviews with the players and ...

Germany's international cultural institution was created after World War II. For President Carola Lentz, its history is marked by permanent reinvention. The Goethe-Institut is "a chameleon." That's ...

German society is diverse, and so are its students. But diversity in the classroom is not reflected in the content of the courses. Students and teachers argue it should be.The new school year has ...

The following is the third of a series of illuminating articles revealing Goethe’s lively interest in Jewry and things Yiddish, based upon excerpts from “Goethe and the Jews,” (G. P. Putman’s Sons, ...