Wilhelm Meister

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Wilhelm Meister is the name of the title hero of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's following novels :

While in the theatrical broadcast the emphasis is still on the fact that Wilhelm Meister should establish the German theater as the “German Shakespeare”, the educational aspect is in the foreground in the apprenticeship years and the years of traveling . Wilhelm has to go through years of apprenticeship and wandering in order to end up in these educational novels as a doctor who is active in the world with his profession. This formation of the citizen in the sense of a maturation process is set apart from the aristocracy , where the personality is based on origin.

literature

  • Ammerlahn, Hellmut: Imagination and Truth. Goethe's artist educational novel 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre': structure, symbolism, poetology. Würzburg 2003. ISBN 3-8260-2554-7 .
  • Schößler, Franziska: Goethe's apprenticeship and traveling years . A cultural history of modernity. Tübingen: Francke Verlag 2002.
  • Gerhard Schulz : The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Part 1: The Age of the French Revolution: 1789–1806. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-00727-9 , pp. 302-319.
  • Gero von Wilpert : Goethe-Lexikon (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 407). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-40701-9 , p. 1189, 6th Zvu

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