Publisher Description

This documentation of the genesis of Goethe's works was compiled in the 1950s by Momme and Katharina Mommsen at the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften [German Academy of Sciences] in East Berlin.and is now continued at the Mommsen Foundation for the Advancement of Goethe Research in California. The work reconstructs and documents the history of the genesis of Goethe's works, based on all of the currently available documents, letters and personal journal entries written by Goethe himself and those close to him. The material includes numerous texts that were previously unknown or largely ignored. The carefully edited documents, which are arranged in chronological order, provide unique insight into the creative processes behind Goethe's works and into both the intellectual and personal cosmos in which Goethe created them. The background of the genesis of his biographical, historical, art-theoretical and natural-scientific writings is also documented. The first three volumes of the work have been published by Walter de Gruyter in 2006. The first two volumes are reproductions of the volumes originally published in 1958, which have been expanded to include new documents. It is planned to publish one additional volume every two years. The complete work comprise approximately 18 volumes

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Exklusives Verkaufsrecht für: Gesamte Welt.

Review

"This monumental project will definitely contribute to research on Goethe and his times and the arrival of the subsequent volumes will be eagerly awaited."
Rekha Kamath Rajan in: Goethe Society of India - Yearbook, 2007 "Damit steht fr einen weiteren nicht unbetrchtlichen Teil des Goethe'schen Werkes eine Quellenpublikation zur Verfgung, die nicht nur allen Goethe-Editoren und -Forschern knftig unentbehrlich sein drfte, sondern auch zum fundierteren Verstndnis der Werke beitragen wird."
Elke Richter in: Editio 21/2007 "Selbst im Bereich der gebeutelten Literaturwissenschaften sind noch Wunder mglich, vorausgesetzt, der Wille zum Wunder, Energie zu seiner allmhlichen Verfertigung und maieutische Unterstrzung sind gegeben. Das Wunder: Die Wiederaufnahme und Fortfhrung der 1949 konzipierten und 1958 begonnenen Dokumentation der Entstehung von Goethes Werken in Dokumenten, mit dem Versprechen mindestens 12 weiterer Bnde sowie einiger Sonderbnde. [...] Dem Flei, der Planung und dem Projektzuschnitt kann nur Achtung entgegengebracht werden. [...] EGW gehrt in jede serise Bibliothek."
Hans Adler in: Monatshefte 3/2007

Long Description

This documentation of the genesis of Goethe's works was compiled in the 1950s by Momme and Katharina Mommsen at the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften [German Academy of Sciences] in East Berlin.and is now continued at the Mommsen Foundation for the Advancement of Goethe Research in California. The work reconstructs and documents the history of the genesis of Goethe's works, based on all of the currently available documents, letters and personal journal entries written by Goethe himself and those close to him. The material includes numerous texts that were previously unknown or largely ignored. The carefully edited documents, which are arranged in chronological order, provide unique insight into the creative processes behind Goethe's works and into both the intellectual and personal cosmos in which Goethe created them. The background of the genesis of his biographical, historical, art-theoretical and natural-scientific writings is also documented. The first three volumes of the work have been published by Walter de Gruyter in 2006. The first two volumes are reproductions of the volumes originally published in 1958, which have been expanded to include new documents. It is planned to publish one additional volume every two years. The complete work comprise approximately 18 volumes

Review Text

"This monumental project will definitely contribute to research on Goethe and his times and the arrival of the subsequent volumes will be eagerly awaited." Rekha Kamath Rajan in: Goethe Society of India - Yearbook, 2007 "Damit steht f

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