What do you know about Goethe?

I have responded to a user on his question as to what art concept Goethe and Schiller represented or how their collaboration was, some time ago. It may also help you:

They were very close friends and exchanged almost daily in letters (letter exchange Goethe/Schiller available in the island publisher). Your merit will be completely confused at the timeOrder of the Lithuanian genusseen what is particularly type and scope ofDramenconcerns (who always seemed too long at Schiller, and whose patterns he himself saw in the sophocles); Goethe further argued thatRomanshow plays are written in continuous intercourse;PoemsIn turn, not in the sound of words and moods, but in concrete situations and motives of the acting persons, etc. They talk about all that back and forth, and then agree on a principle (but they do not follow themselves!)

Incidentally, the exchange of letters is not very exhaustive, because it is heavily filled with banalities and abilities. – Yesrepresented Schiller the “objective” sealaccording to the type of ancient in ancient times; duringGoethe of the romantic subjective directionaccused. To explain this, he even wrote the Scriptures“About naive and sentimental seal”. Goethe drew up this as a direct affront, and told Eckermann that Schiller had been completely in error, where he, Goethe, had tried to make the objective representation, while Schiller in the woken and dreaming, as he always had aIdentificationnot from concrete occasions and experiences like him, and therefore could never be finished with his works, often on stage the roles of the actors changed, rewritten or supplemented, entirely to their despair. From these debates, the later widespread separation of classic and romanticthe Goethe indicated that the classical was the healthy one that was romantic.

Schiller was, by the way, very philosophical and wrote e.g. writings about the education of man, about poetry or history, which“unfortunate philosophical directions”Goethe always told him that this constant polemization of Schiller spoils and makes it abstract, even physically ill, because he could hardly catch up with all his strength and often enough with the help of the alcohol.

TheCooperationby the way, Schiller always performed his (projecting) works before scene with Goethe; while Goethe showed only finished works, and never chatted about a project, since in his eyes only the poet knew what he could do from a given fabric. – But it was quite obvious that Goethe was interested in a fabric (Wilhelm Tell), who then seized and worked out Schiller, or that Schiller wanted to work out the fist. – They worked closely together on the “Hores“, a Litteraturzeitung, for which Goethe wrote his many ballads. And in response to poor readers, they also wrote the “Xenia“, spot density on famous contemporaries.