The German poet’s dauntingly eclectic accomplishments were founded on a tireless interrogation of how a life should be lived.

It's not as giddy as its title suggests, though perhaps it's a bit much to expect a period piece about Germany's great romantic poet and polymath Johann Goethe to be "Shakespeare in Love." But "Young ...

In “Young Goethe in Love,” truly a Faustian tale, Lotte (Miriam Stein) must choose between Goethe (Alexander Fehling) and a wealthier suitor picked out for her by her father. Johann Wolfgang von ...

That Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the greatest poet Germany ever produced, was at one time interested in the Yiddish language is not commonly known. This is of peculiar interest in the light of the ...

Charming in a way that American romantic comedies have all but forgotten, Young Goethe in Love is by turns cute, campy and endearingly cliched. Playing fast and loose with the life of the ...

German society is diverse, and so are its students. But diversity in the classroom is not reflected in the content of the courses. Students and teachers argue it should be. The new school year has ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The institute's goal is to ...

It seems only appropriate that "Young Goethe in Love," a biopic of the early years of the Teuton writer most clearly associated with Sturm und Drang and Romanticism, should be largely fictitious, ...