* The alchemical connection also occurs in the German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's rendition of Faust, Part 2, which has that famed sorcerer's former student Wagner create a homunculus, who then carries out extended conversations with Mephistopheles as well as travels with him to the Pharsalian Fields to save Faust.

* 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.

The fantastic stories of Simon the Sorcerer persisted into the later Middle Ages, becoming a possible inspiration for the Faustbuch and Goethe's Faust.

* 1832 – Goethe's Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy

The self-deluded lead characters in many expressionist films echo Goethe's Faust, and Murnau indeed retold the tale in his film Faust.

* January 19, 1829 – August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig.

* January 19 – August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig.

More orgiastic witches ' meetings are also depicted in Robert Burns ' poem " Tam o ' Shanter " and in Goethe's play Faust.

* Wagner, fictional character in Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus, Goethe's Faust and Gounod's opera Faust

The library contains a 13, 000-volume collection including Goethe's masterpiece Faust, in addition to a music collection of the Duchess.

In Goethe's Faust, a chorus of Lemurs who serve Mephistopheles dig Faustus ' grave.

Emilia Galotti by Lessing and Goethe's Faust were performed for the first time in Braunschweig.

He also read Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust for the first time ( in French translation ), which would become the inspiration for Huit scènes de Faust ( his Opus 1 ), much later re-developed as La damnation de Faust.

For La damnation de Faust, Berlioz drew on Goethe's Faust ; for Harold en Italie, he drew on Byron's Childe Harold ; for Benvenuto Cellini, he drew on Cellini's own autobiography.

Berlioz discovered Goethe's Faust through Gérard de Nerval's translation, published in December 1827.

) Helen is also conjured by Faust in Goethe's Faust.

* Baucis and Philemon are characters in the fifth act of Goethe's Faust II ( 1832 ).

He was also known for his work with the 1924 film The Last Laugh and his timeless, immaculate interpretation of Goethe's Faust ( 1926 ).

Murnau's film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe's classic version.

In Part II of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles tries to catch a Lamia, only to find out that she is an illusion:

In his early works, Steiner sought to overcome what he perceived as the dualism of Cartesian idealism and Kantian subjectivism by developing Goethe's conception of the human being as a natural-supernatural entity, that is: natural in that humanity is a product of nature, supernatural in that through our conceptual powers we extend nature's realm, allowing it to achieve a reflective capacity in us as philosophy, art and science.

Prometheus is the lyrical " I " who speaks in Goethe's Sturm und Drang poem " Prometheus " ( written ca.

He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view, in which “ Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear.

Proserpina's figure inspired many artistic compositions, eminently in sculpture ( Bernini, see The Rape of Proserpina ( Bernini ) ) in painting ( D. G. Rossetti, a fresco by Pomarancio, J. Heintz, A. Durer, Dell ' Abbate, M. Parrish ) and in literature ( Goethe's Proserpina and Swinburne's Hymn to Proserpine and The Garden of Proserpine ) The statue of the Rape of Prosepina by Pluto that stands in the Great Garden ( more correctly, Großer Garten ) of Dresden, Germany is also referred to as " Time Ravages Beauty ".

Goethe's Elective Affinities ( 1809 ) is set around the city of Weimar.

A spike of emulation suicides after a widely publicized suicide is known as the Werther effect, following Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.

' for indeed, it was near – only five miles from the cultural heart of Germany – ' that nation of universities ' [...]" ( p. 100 ).</ ref > The Goethe Eiche ( Goethe's Oak ) stood inside the camp's perimeter, and the stump of the tree is preserved as part of the memorial at KZ Buchenwald.

Some ideas in the play recall Goethe's novella Elective Affinities: Stoppard's characters " Thomasina " and " Septimus " have parallels in Goethe's " Ottalie " and " Eduard ", and the historical section of the play is set in 1809, the year of the novella.

* Laertes is a character in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.

In many versions of the story, particularly Goethe's drama, Mephistopheles helps him to seduce a beautiful and innocent girl, usually named Gretchen, whose life is ultimately destroyed.

A hybrid between a play and an extended poem, Goethe's two-part " closet drama " is epic in scope.

Mefistofele is one of many pieces of classical music based on the Faust legend, and like many other composers, Boito used Goethe's version as his starting point.

On that same day Stalin left his autograph on the last page of this work by Gorky: " Эта штука сильнее чем " Фауст " Гёте ( любовь побеждает смерть )"( " This piece is stronger than Goethe's Faust ( love defeats death )".

The state of mind produced by that shock is reflected in his novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis ( The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis ) ( 1798 ), which was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as a more politicized version of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, " for the hero of Foscolo embodies the mental sufferings and suicide of an undeceived Italian patriot just as the hero of Goethe places before us the too delicate sensitiveness embittering and at last cutting short the life of a private German scholar.

A famous literary expression of misotheistic sentiment is Goethe's Prometheus, composed in the 1770s.

The book is remembered solely through Goethe's scornful attack on its want of taste ; its immediate effect was to produce Bahrdt's expulsion from Gießen.

In turn, Harry offends the man and his wife by criticizing the wife's picture of Goethe, which Harry feels is too thickly sentimental and insulting to Goethe's true brilliance.

More ambitious and on a wider canvas are the historical or semi-historical novels, Dichterleben ( 1826 ), Der Aufruhr in den Cevennen ( 1826, unfinished ), Der Tod des Dichters ( 1834 ); Der junge Tischlermeister ( 1836 ; but begun in 1811 ) is an excellent story written under the influence of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister ; Vittoria Accorombona ( 1840 ), the story of Vittoria Accoramboni written in the style of the French Romanticists, shows a falling-off.

Toohey is an unabashed collectivist and Rand's personification of evil ( when speaking freely, he explicitly compares himself to Goethe's Mephisto, who tempted Faust to destruction ).

Part I is based on the Latin text of a 9th-century Christian hymn for Pentecost, Veni creator spiritus (" Come, Creator Spirit "), and Part II is a setting of the words from the closing scene of Goethe's Faust.

Steiner was also strongly influenced by Goethe's phenomenological approach to science.

Evolutionary ideas, although not natural selection, were accepted by German biologists accustomed to ideas of homology in morphology from Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants and from their long tradition of comparative anatomy.

Goethe's novel was published in 1774 and not long after young men began to mimic the character Werther by dressing in yellow pants and blue jackets.

Goethe's Ankunft im Elysium by Franz Nadorp

The symphony was followed by another orchestral work, by far the best known of Dukas's compositions, his scherzo for orchestra, L ' apprenti sorcier ( The Sorcerer's Apprentice ) ( 1897 ), a short piece ( lasting for between 10 and 12 minutes in performance ) based on Goethe's poem " Der Zauberlehrling ".

During Dukas's lifetime The Musical Quarterly commented that the world fame of the work not only overshadowed all other compositions by Dukas, but also eclipsed Goethe's original poem.

Illustration by Harry Clarke for Goethe's Goethe's Faust | Faust

Similarities to Goethe's Faust include the classic tale of a man who sold his soul to the Devil, the same Mephisto wagering with an angel to corrupt the soul of Faust, the plague sent by Mephisto on Faust's small town, and the familiar cliffhanger-Faust unable to find a cure and therefore turning to Mephisto, renouncing God, the angel and science alike.

It has inspired major musical works in other forms, such as the " dramatic legend " The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust, the second part of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony and Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony.

In Germany, the Sturm und Drang period of the late 18th century merges into a Classicist and Romantic period, epitomized by the long era of Goethe's activity, covering the first third of the century.

Many Power metal bands based their concept albums on fantasy books and national epics ; for example Blind Guardian based their Nightfall in Middle-Earth on The Silmarillion by Tolkien and Kamelot based Epica and The Black Halo on Goethe's Faust.

Erwin Bielefeld asserts that this painting most likely depicts a story written by Phlegon of Tralles for the Roman Emperor Hadrian, of which Jordaens may have had access to a translation or could have adapted from a more contemporary version such as Goethe's ballad " Die Braut von Korinth.

The treasures there, nevertheless, awakened in Winckelmann an intense interest in art, which was deepened by his association with various artists, particularly the painter Adam Friedrich Oeser ( 1717 – 1799 ) -- Goethe's future friend and influence — who encouraged Winckelmann in his aesthetic studies.