Ernst Osterkamp: ‘Dear Shadow Image’. Portrait of an unknown woman

Bildnachweis: Johann Leonhard Raab after August Friedrich Pecht, Charlotte, 1864, Museo Casa di Goethe, Foto: Enrico Fontolan

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, the Casa di Goethe is organising various lectures and a conference on 6 December 2024.

Professor Ernst Osterkamp will give a lecture on the meaning and role of Lotte, one of the protagonists of the novel.

The event will take place in German and will be translated into Italian.

Ernst Osterkamp photo: fotostudio-charlottenburg, www.studio-charlottenburg.de

Ernst Osterkamp, born in 1950, was Professor of Modern German Literature at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 1992 to 2016. Visiting professor at New York University and Washington University in St. Louis, among others. Full member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, and the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. President of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung from 2017 to 2023. Most recently published: Der Dichter und der Risches. Leben und Werk des Michael Beer (1800-1833) (Göttingen 2024); Sterne in stiller werdenden Nächten. Lektüren zu Goethes Spätwerk (Frankfurt 2023, 2nd edition 2024); Felix Dahn oder Der Professor als Held (Munich 2019).