Dichtung und Wahrheit
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Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit is an autobiography by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that comprises the time from the poet's childhood to the days in 1775, when he was about to leave for Weimar.
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Dichtung und Wahrheit, 1903-1904
Friederike Brion
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Friederike Elisabeth Brion was a parson's daughter who had a short but intense love affair with the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
Dichtung und Wahrheit
…selected those events which he considered it desirable to mention. Goethe also created a partially fictional image of some figures and events, including Friederike Brion for example, which are more vivid than any attempt at faithful description could have been. Germanists have even doubted that the figure of Gretchen…
Friederike Brion imagined in Alsatian attire
Parsonage of Sessenheim around 1770. Drawing by Goethe