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Incontri al Corso 18 – with Radek Krolczyk
Rome – before, during and after Peter O. Chotjewitz During his time in Rome, Radek Krolczyk follows in the footsteps of the German author, translator and lawyer Peter O. Chotjewitz, who spent time in Rome in various decades, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, then in the early 1990s, knowing various opposed German personalities, […]
Italy in Lines – Drawings by Christoph Heinrich Kniep
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death, the Casa di Goethe is the first museum in Italy to dedicate an exhibition to the graphic artist Christoph Heinrich Kniep (1755-1825). Kniep is best known today as Goethe’s companion on his journey to Sicily. The exhibition also focuses on his further artistic work, with […]
Biography and autobiography in Theodor Fontane – How and why write a ‘classic biography’ today?
Lecture by Iwan Michelangelo D’Aprile in conversation with Maria Paola Scialdone As the example of Goethe shows, with new biographies appearing almost every year, the ‘classic biography’ continues to be one of the most popular formats in an increasingly narrow book market. Using his biography of Theodor Fontane (Fontane. Ein Jahrhundert in Bewegung. Rowohlt, Reinbek) […]