#young werther

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Gary Kelley’s illustrations for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther.

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The Sorrows Of Young Werther - Robert Gligorov

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Will the 7-2 SCOTUS Split Grab You by the Pussy? It has been a momentous week in a turbulent year that followed an alarming pandemic during an ominous assault on our democracy, hasn’t it? It would be easy to follow in the footsteps of Young Werther given all this merde raining down on us. If that’s where you’re at, then mayhaps you should give this blog post a miss and skip straight to rating,…

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[…] my passions were never far from madness […]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’,  tr. David Constantine

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the sorrows of young Werther

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what art does for us

john berger and our faces, my heart, as brief as photos \\ larissa pham the limits of the viral book review \\ frantz (2016) dir. françois ozon \\ johann wolfgang von goethe the sorrows of young werther (tr. david constantine)

kofi

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The GDR was famously chronically strapped for cash. Luckily, that did not hinder the DEFA film company to keep on filming. As may be expected: It shows!

The GDR was famously chronically strapped for cash. Luckily, that did not hinder the DEFA film company to keep on filming. As may be expected, it shows!

Like with this costume, so pared back, one can hardly pinpoint the time period it was supposed to represent. On the other hand, it was very coherently reused: It (presumably) first appeared on Martina Wilka and Lilly Palmer playing young and older Charlotte Kestner, respectively, in 1974’s Lotte in Weimar – who, Thomas Mann argued, was fellow scribe Goethe’s inspiration for his Werther’s Lotte.

So, Lotte got to wear the costume in 1976’s The Sorrows of Young Werther – where Katharina Thalbach played her. Both films were directed by Egon Günther and costumed by Christiane Dorst, who worked on a large portion of 1970 to Mid-1990s 19th century set German movies.

Costume Credit: carsNcors

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“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poster: "Zan Zig performing with rabbit and roses"

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Andy Warhol Goethe. 1982. Series of four screenprints: 96 × 96 cm (38 × 38 in) each.

[snartha]

[eternal--returned]

When the moisture rises in a mist in the sweet valley all around me and the high sun rests on the surface of the forest's impenetrable darkness and only occasional beams find their way into the inner sanctum and I lie in the tall grass by the tumbling stream and, thus close to the earth, become aware of the myriad varieties of grasses, and when I feel the seething of the world of small things among the stalks, feel against my heart the countless unfathomable shapes and forms of the tiny creatures that flit and crawl, and I feel the presence of the Almighty who created us in his image, the wafting breath of the Love that encompasses all, that upholds and sustains us in and eternal joy, oh my friend, at the dawning then before my eyes when the world and the heavens reside in my soul completely like the bodily shape of a beloved woman, then how I yearn and often have said to myself, Oh could you give that some answering expression, only breathe into the page what is so fully and warmly alive in you till it becomes the mirror of your soul just as your soul is the mirror of the unending diety!—Oh my friend!—But it will be the downfall of me, I lie defeated by the force of the splendour of these phenomena.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ֍ The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

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Let the winds of autumn rise and come in storms over the black moors! Let the torrent roar through the forest and the tempest howl in the crowns of the oaks and the moon show her changing face in pallor through the breaking cloud—

Ossian, quoted in ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. David Constantine

[vanshaunas]

some quotes that i think you could find in shauna shipman’s journal (and they’re all about jackie taylor) :

“I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.” - The Sorrows of Young Werther, J. W. Goethe

“My imagination can shape no other figure but hers; I see everything around me only in its relationship to her.” - The Sorrows of Young Werther, J. W. Goethe

“I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.” - Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka

“I want to fill my mouth with your name. I want to eat you whole.” - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda

[quinnkdev]

you know what? fuck you *unwrites your book*