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Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever.

Werther, a sensitive young artist, finds himself in Wahlheim, a quiet, attractive village in Germany where he seeks solace from the turmoils of love. It is a young spring, and he hopes that arcadian solitude will prove a genial balm to his mind. But his romantic tendency rules otherwise, and he falls in love with Charlotte - Lotte - even though he knows she is affianced to another.

Band 2 der legendären Fantasy-Saga von Wolfgang Hohlbein: Nach den Schrecken der Nonakesh-Wüste und den Geheimnissen des Wandernden Waldes hoffen Skar und Del endlich auf eine Atempause. Doch die Welt von Enwor kennt keine Ruhe. Ihr Weg führt die beiden Satai nach Combat, die größte Stadt des Kontinents. Ein Ort voller Intrigen, Gewalt und uralter Geheimnisse.

Der mit fast neun Milliarden Euro pro Jahr weltweit teuerste Öffentlich-Rechtliche Rundfunk (ÖRR) Deutschlands steckt in der Krise. Immer mehr Gebührenpflichtige verweigern die Zwangszahlung von 220,32 Euro jährlich. Die üppigen Gehälter für Intendanten und die Gagen für „Star"-Moderatoren wurden zum Ärgernis. Nur noch die Hälfte der Bundesbürger vertraut ARD, ZDF und Deutschlandradio.

Magie, Liebe & ein geheimnisvolles Doppelleben – Goethes kunstvolle Erzählung zwischen Märchen und Wirklichkeit, eindrucksvoll gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Mit „Die neue Melusine" zeigt Johann Wolfgang von Goethe seine spielerische und zugleich tiefgründige Seite. Ein junger Mann begegnet einer rätselhaften Frau, die ein ungewöhnliches Geheimnis verbirgt: Sie gehört einer märchenhaften Welt an und lebt zwischen zwei Wirklichkeiten. Zwischen Neugier, Liebe und Unverständnis gerät der Erzähler in ein faszinierendes Abenteuer voller Zauber und Irritation.

Mit „Die wunderlichen Nachbarskinder" entfaltet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe eine ebenso zarte wie geheimnisvolle Erzählung über Wahrnehmung und Wirklichkeit. Im Mittelpunkt stehen zwei Kinder, deren Verhalten und Erscheinung auf die Erwachsenenwelt fremd und unerklärlich wirken. Zwischen Realität und Fantasie, zwischen kindlicher Unmittelbarkeit und erwachsener Deutung entfaltet sich eine Geschichte voller Andeutungen und poetischer Tiefe.

Mit „Der Prokurator" zeigt Johann Wolfgang von Goethe seine Fähigkeit, große moralische Fragen in knapper, dichter Form zu gestalten. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein Mann in verantwortungsvoller Position, der zwischen Pflicht, Macht und persönlichem Gewissen steht. In einer entscheidenden Situation wird er mit den Konsequenzen seines Handelns konfrontiert – und muss sich der Frage nach Schuld und Verantwortung stellen. Goethe verdichtet in dieser Erzählung zentrale Themen seines Denkens: Recht und Gerechtigkeit, innere Wahrheit und äußere Ordnung.

Mit „Die Sängerin Antonelli" zeigt Johann Wolfgang von Goethe seine besondere Sensibilität für die Welt der Kunst und die Schicksale ihrer Protagonisten. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine gefeierte Sängerin, deren Leben zwischen Ruhm, Erwartungen und persönlicher Sehnsucht verläuft. Hinter der glänzenden Fassade des Erfolgs offenbaren sich Zweifel, innere Konflikte und die Frage nach der eigenen Identität.

Mit seiner Rede „Zum Shakespeares Tag" würdigt Johann Wolfgang von Goethe das Genie William Shakespeares – als Dichter, Dramatiker und Vorbild. Goethe schildert eindrucksvoll, wie Shakespeares Werke sein eigenes Denken, Schreiben und Weltverständnis geprägt haben. Die Rede entstand 1771 und markiert den Beginn einer neuen literarischen Haltung in Deutschland, die sich vom Klassizismus löste und den Weg zur Genie-Ästhetik und dem Sturm und Drang ebnete.

Stick and Rudder is the first exact analysis of the art of flying ever attempted. It has been continuously in print for 33 years. It shows precisely what the pilot does when he flies, just how he does it, and why. Because the basics are largely unchanging, the book therefore is applicable to large airplanes and small, old airplanes and new, and is of interest not only to the learner but also to the accomplished pilot and to the instructor himself.

Goethe was probably the greatest universal genius who ever lived. Although known primarily as a poet, playright, and novelist, he was also known for his work in anatomy, botany, color, art criticism, and jurisprudence. Many people are deterred from attempting to read anything by Goethe because of his extremely penetrating intelligence and dense prose. But his travel diary, Italian Journey, is by far easier to digest than anything else by him.

Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust, based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement, to which Goethe was an early and major contributor. Part I of the work outlines a pact Faust makes with the devil, Mephistopheles, and encompasses the tragedy of Gretchen, whom Faust seduces.

In Kaput, Wolfgang Münchau argues that the weaknesses of Germany's economy have, in fact, been brewing for decades. The neo-mercantilist policies of the German state, driven by close connections between the country's industrial and political elite, have left Germany technologically behind over-reliant on authoritarian Russia and China—and with little sign of being able to adapt to the digital realities of the 21st century. It is an essential read for anyone interested in the future of Europe's biggest economy.

After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated. In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues the world is about to change.

Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions, seeing extensive combat action on the Eastern Front in 1943-45. This memoir is his brutal and deeply personal account of the Russian Front's appalling carnage. Depicting a running tank engagement lasting 72 hours, Faust describes how his Tiger unit fought pitched battles in the snows of Western Russia against the full might of the Red Army.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.

Faust is a tragic play in two parts that reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant but disillusioned scholar who makes a deal with the devil. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's masterpiece and the greatest work of German literature. Part I sets out Faust’s despair, his pact with Mephistopheles, and his love for Gretchen. Part II deals with Faust’s life at court, the wooing and winning of Helen of Troy, and his purification and redemption.

Goethe as a novelist is best known for two earlier novels, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1796). But Elective Affinities, which was published in 1809, is widely regarded as his mature masterpiece, not least because of its unusual provenance, which brings together Goethe the scientist as well as Goethe the writer.

Faust is one of the pillars of Western literature. This classic drama presents the story of the scholar Faust, tempted into a contract with the Devil in return for a life of sensuality and power. Enjoyment rules, until Faust’s emotions are stirred by a meeting with Gretchen, and the tragic outcome brings Part 1 to an end. Part 2, written much later in Goethe’s life, places his eponymous hero in a variety of unexpected circumstances, causing him to reflect on humanity and its attitudes to life and death.

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