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Display case and film
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Thomas Mann, Goethe, and Italy
6.30 p.m. Opening of the display case dedicated to Thomas Mann on the occasion of his 150th birthday. 7.00 p.m. Projection of the film Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti (1971). Goethe and Italy played a central role in Thomas Mann’s life, making him an important figure for the Casa di Goethe. The German writer […]
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Christoph Orth: ‘Here is the key to everything.’ Goethe and Kniep’s journey to Sicily
In the context of the exhibition Italy in Lines. Master Drawings by Christoph Heinrich Kniep For Goethe, the experience of Sicily was the defining moment of his journey through Italy. At this ‘wondrous point, towards which so many rays of world history are directed,’ as he himself wrote, his diverse interests converged: mythological and artistic […]