Goethe’s birthday: Massimo Wertmüller reads from ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’

  ‘This is my birthday, and early in the morning I received a packet from Albert. Upon opening it, I found one of the pink ribbons which Charlotte wore Lotte wore in her dress the first time I saw her, and which I had several times asked her to give me.’ Werther 28 August 1771* […]