Wilhelm Meister
Wilhelm Meister is the name of the title hero of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's following novels :
- Wilhelm Meister's theatrical broadcast (“Urmeister”), from 1776, in print in 1911
- Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship , published 1795/96
- Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre , from 1807, in print in 1821, expanded version in 1829
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
Web links
- Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship years at gutenberg.de
- Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre at gutenberg.de
- Lothar Bluhm: "You seem like Saul, Kis' son ...". Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship between 'healing' and 'destruction' (PDF file; 200 kB)
- Hendrik Birus: Greatest tendency of the age or a Candide, directed against poetry? Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis' Critique of Wilhelm Meister (PDF file; 200 kB)
- Katrin Fischer: The Tower Society in Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship years (PDF file; 415 kB)