Goethe and Anna Amalia - A Forbidden Love

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Goethe and Anna Amalia - a forbidden love? is a 2003 first (under the title: JW Goethe and Anna Amalia - a forbidden love? ) in Weimar in the publishing house Dr. AJ Denkena published non-fiction book by the author Ettore Ghibellino .

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The author develops the hypothesis that there was a passionate love affair between the Duchess Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Among other things, he cites a whole series of letters from his contemporaries as evidence, but above all Goethe's letters and notes to Charlotte von Stein (over 1,600). Likewise, Goethe's drama Tasso , which portrays Goethe's relationship to Anna Amalia in a veiled form in the characters of the poet Tasso and Princess Leonore. The letters of love and admiration addressed to Charlotte von Stein were in truth addressed to the Duchess. The Weimar lady-in-waiting merely had the function of the secretive mediator between the lovers. Until her death, she kept the promise of secrecy given to the Duchess.

controversy

The majority of German scholars reject Ghibellino's thesis. In the opinion of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, he does not adhere to the basics of scientific working methods. He ignores documents that contradict his thesis and he manipulates the sources. Ghibellino returned this allegation to his opponents. In a television documentary, the historian Joachim Berger, who received his doctorate on Anna Amalia, accused Ghibellino of "tearing words that appear in the letters out of their context and misunderstanding their historical meaning".

expenditure

  • Ettore Ghibellino: JW Goethe and Anna Amalia - a forbidden love . Denkena Verlag, Weimar 2003, 193 pages, ISBN 393617704X
    - 2nd, extended edition: Goethe and Anna Amalia - a forbidden love? ibid. 2004, 368 pp., ISBN 978-3-936177-04-6
    - 3rd, modified edition: Goethe and Anna Amalia - a forbidden love? ibid. 2007, 293 pp., ISBN 978-3-936177-88-6
    - Translation: Goethe and Anna Amalia. A forbidden love? Carysfort Press, Dublin 2007, 360 pp., ISBN 978-1-904505-24-2

literature

  • Cora Lee Kluge: Review of "JW Goethe and Anna Amalia: a forbidden love." In: Monthly Issues for German-Language Literature and Culture , Vol. 96, No. 1 (2004), pp. 130-132, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, ISSN  0026-9271 .
  • Otto Werner Förster: The heretic from Weimar. Ettore Ghibellino thinks that Duchess Anna Amalia was Goethe's 'wife von Stein'. In: Triangle . - Halle, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , ISSN  1432-9476 . Vol. 12, 2007, Issue 10 (October), pp. 6-9, (with illustrations).
  • Ilse Nagelschmidt (Ed.): Everything about love. Anna Amalia and Goethe, 1st interdisciplinary symposium (March 30/31, 2007); Proceedings and two appendices. Denkena Verlag, Weimar 2008, 277 pages, ISBN 978-3-936177-10-7
  • Fritz Egli: Fictions in the guise of science. In: Weimarer contributions 3/2008, pp. 439–443
  • Veit Noll: Goethe in the madness of love. Or: love versus law and morality. In: Veit Noll: Two participants in the Weimar culture around Anna Amalia and Goethe in the period from 1775 to 1785. Essays with reference to Johann August von Einsiedel (1754–1837) and Emilie von Werthern (1757–1844) on Goethe and Anna Amalia . Egon Wogel Verlag, Salzwedel 2009, pp. 25–168.
  • Veit Noll: Goethe in the madness of love. Vol. 1: Die Flucht 1786, Forschungsverlag Salzwedel 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816669-2-2 ; Vol. 2: "Tassos" message, Forschungsverlag Salzwedel 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816669-4-6 .

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Reviews
  • Review of the second edition of the book by Jörg Drews in TITEL - Magazin für Literatur und mehr , September 8, 2004.
  • Critical review by Klaus Seehafer (librarian and writer).

Individual evidence

  1. Biography of Ettore Ghibellino  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Denkena Verlag.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.habena-verlag.de  
  2. "The sources are poisoned" , Der Spiegel , no. 30, July 21, 2008 interview with Ghibellino.
  3. Reply to the opinion of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the "Anna Amalia and Goethe Academy in Weimar", May 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.annaamalia-goethe.de  
  4. ^ Article ( memento of March 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in the broadcasting readings of the Bavarian Radio , September 21, 2008