Wilhelm Meister's farewell

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The novel Wilhelm Meister's Farewell by Leonie Ossowski is a parody of the Wilhelm Meister novels by Goethe , which transfers the staff of the apprenticeship years to the Berlin squatter scene.

Ossowski followed the example of Ulrich Plenzdorf , who in 1972/73, with his play and novel The New Sorrows of Young W. Goethe's Werther, chose to present a socially critical treatment of the situation of young people in the GDR . The novel is less original in the reorganization of the plot and largely dispenses with a confrontation of Goethe's language with - poetically exaggerated - current youth language and was less successful.

Bibliographical information

  • Leonie Ossowski: Wilhelm Meister's farewell. Novel. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1982, ISBN 3-407-80639-6 .

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Text excerpt as PDF file ( Memento from August 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )