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Conference

Translating Werther in Italy

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, which quickly became a European success after its publication, the Casa di Goethe organises a conference on the Werther translations in Italy. Presentations: Roberto Venuti: Werther. A ‘scandalous’ novel in papal Rome Flavia di Battista: ‘Some sparks of that […]

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Lecture

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

  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 […]

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