Casa di Goethe

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Casa di Goethe
Data
place Via del Corso 18, 00186 Roma ItalyItalyItaly 
opening 1997
management
Maria Gazzetti
Website

The Casa di Goethe is a museum and cultural center in Rome dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his Italian journey . It is supported by the working group of independent cultural institutes (AsKI for short) and, according to its own website, is the only German museum abroad. It has been directed by Maria Gazzetti since 2013. The Casa di Goethe is financed by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media .

View of the building in Via del Corso No. 18. The Casa di Goethe is on the first floor.
Entrance of the Casa di Goethe in Via del Corso with advertising for an exhibition in 2015

history

From 1973 to 1982 the Freie Deutsche Hochstift / Frankfurt Goethemuseum ran a small memorial in rented rooms on the second floor of a house in Via del Corso 18 in Rome, where Goethe lived with his friend Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein during his Italian trip from 1786 to 1788 . The museum had to close in 1982 for financial reasons. A few years later the AsKI eV was commissioned to design a new museum concept. The project was driven forward under the direction of the then AsKI managing director Konrad Scheurmann. In 1990 the entire first floor, on which Goethe had demonstrably lived, could be acquired. On May 30, 1997, the Casa di Goethe was opened by the then responsible Interior Minister Manfred Kanther . Since this year it has been commemorating Goethe's experience of Italy and the tradition of traveling to Italy yesterday and today with the permanent exhibition Goethe in Italy and two to four temporary exhibitions per year.

Copy of the famous Tischbein painting by Goethe in the Campagna
The cursed second pillow shows Goethe's first room in the Casa di Goethe

From 1998 to 2006 DaimlerChrysler AG financed a scholarship program for writers, journalists, scientists, translators and artists. In 2009, with the support of the German Bundestag, the apartment on the 2nd floor, in which the first Goethe Museum in Rome was located, was acquired. On September 20, 2012, new rooms (around 250 m²) were opened in the presence of Minister of State Bernd Neumann and his Italian colleague Lorenzo Ornaghi . The historical library of the German Artists' Association in Rome, which was previously spread across various institutes , has now become publicly accessible . It contains numerous documents on the organizations and life of German artists in 19th century Rome. There are also seminar and library rooms and a new event hall on the 2nd floor. The museum was under the direction of Ursula Bongaerts from 1997 to April 2013. The Italian literary scholar Maria Gazzetti has been appointed as the new director.

activity

The main focus of the permanent exhibition is Goethe's Italian journey with its effects on the poet and his work. It also sheds light on aspects of the tradition of traveling to Italy up to the present day. The Casa di Goethe owns its own collection of graphics, drawings, autographs, sculptures and paintings. The temporary exhibitions deal with German-Italian topics up to the present day or they show how various artistic personalities such as Max Beckmann , Heinrich and Thomas Mann , Andreu Alfaro , Günter Grass and Johann Gottfried Schadow deal with the work and the person of Goethe. Bilingual publications accompany the exhibitions and can be obtained from the museum's website or the AsKI eV.

The Casa di Goethe is also a place for artistic, scientific and cultural encounters. Lectures, readings and colloquia on German-Italian or European topics take place regularly on the second floor.

In the rooms of the Casa di Goethe, a reference library with numerous valuable first editions of Goethe's works and extensive secondary literature on Goethe's life and work can be used by prior arrangement. In addition, the library and the estate of the German Art Association are in the collection of the Casa di Goethe. These holdings can also be viewed by prior arrangement and are currently being developed for an online catalog that will be made available to the public in 2019.

After the spatial expansion, which was completed in 2012, the Casa di Goethe scholarship in Rome was re-launched in 2013, initially for a period of four years ; a guest room is available for the accommodation of authors, publicists, translators and scientists. The Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation from Bremen was won as a sponsor. A equally composed German-Italian jury will decide on the award.

Exhibitions (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Claudia Nordhoff, Casa di Goethe. Inventory catalog. With a foreword by Maria Gazzetti. Rome , 2017. ISBN 978-3-930370-44-3
  • Nicholas Stanley-Price, Mary K. Guigan, and John F. McGuigan. At the foot of the pyramid. 300 years of the cemetery for foreigners in Rome. Publication for the exhibition in the Casa di Goethe. Rome: AsKI eV, 2016 ISBN 978-3-930370-38-2
  • Jan Koneffke / Mario Fortunato. Berlin meets Rome. Roma incontra Berlino. Published by Maria Gazzetti, Casa di Goethe, 2016, ISBN 978-3930370375
  • Lady Hamilton: Eros and Attitude. The cult of beauty and the reception of antiquities in Goethe's time , de./it. Publication for the exhibition in the Casa di Goethe, Rome 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0269-0 .
  • Ursula Bongaerts. The Casa di Goethe in Rome . Rome: Casa di Goethe, 2004. ISBN 3-930370-08-5
  • Schadow in Rome. Drawings by Johann Gottfried Schadow from the years 1785 to 1787. Publication for the exhibition in the Casa di Goethe. Berlin: Archive of the Academy of Arts, 2003. ISBN 3-88331-075-1
  • Konrad Scheurmann, Ursula Bongaerts-Schomer. "- finally arrived in this capital of the world!" Goethe in Rome. Publication for the opening of the Casa di Goethe in Rome. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1997. ISBN 3-8053-2013-2
  • Ursula Bongaerts-Schomer, Konrad Scheurmann, Gabriele Weidle-Kehrhahn. Casa di Goethe. An exhibition on the Goethe Museum Rome in the Federal Chancellery in Bonn November 10, 1993 to January 28, 1994. Bonn: Arbeitskreis independent Kultur-Instituts eV, 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.casadigoethe.it , accessed on August 9, 2016
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Casa di Goethe homepage, accessed on September 20, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.casadigoethe.it
  3. ↑ The Federal Government Press and Information Office of the Federal Government press release 136 of April 24, 2013: New management of the Casa di Goethe in Rome ( Memento of the original of June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 25, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesregierung.de
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.casadigoethe.it
  5. ↑ In the footsteps of Goethe in Rome. Casa di Goethe, accessed on May 21, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ https://www.aski.org/stipendium/ , AsKI eV homepage, accessed on September 19, 2018
  7. ↑ The first of the victorious Emma's in FAZ from November 27, 2015, page 13

Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 32.4 "  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 37.9"  E