Sturm und Drang
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Sturm und Drang was a proto-Romanticist movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s. Within the movement, individual subjectivity and, in particular, e
Clearing Up: Coast of Sicily, Andreas Achenbach, 1847
Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Anton Leisewitz
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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The Sorrows of Young Werther, or simply Werther, is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang
Sturm und Drang
…especially whatever is painful, tormenting, or frightening). The story of hopeless love and eventual suicide presented in Goethe's sentimental novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774) is an example of the author's tempered introspection regarding his love and torment. Friedrich Schiller's drama, Die Räuber (1781), provided the…
First print 1774
Charlotte at Werther's grave. This scene is not in the novel.
Goethe portrait in profile
Colored engraving of Werther and Lotte