"Goethe was, it seems, a radical skeptic, although he often hid his skepticism well."
THOMAS STEINFELD
When Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) died, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and industrialization had fundamentally changed Europe. Against this backdrop, Thomas Steinfeld, long-time literary critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, retells the life of the prince of poets. How much was Goethe shaped by his time? And vice versa: how strongly did he influence his time? Thomas Steinfeld's biography of Goethe (Rowohlt) is a captivating and surprising book - "instructive and witty" (Die Zeit). In conversation with the poet, former publisher and homme de lettre Michael Krüger, Thomas Steinfeld shows that Goethe was only human - but what a human.
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