The story is on behalf of Ph.D. Serenus Zeitblom. Born in 1883, he graduates from the gymnasium of the town of Kaisersashern, then the university, becomes a teacher of classical languages ​​and has a family. Adrian Leverkun is two years younger. He spends his early childhood at the parent's estate, ...

The tragedy opens with three introductory texts. The first is a lyrical dedication to the friends of youth - those with whom the author was associated at the beginning of work on Faust and who have already died or are away. “I remember all those who lived that radiant noon again gratefully.” Then follows “Theatrical ...

The action dates back to the middle of the 16th century, to the period of the Reformation. Michael Kolhaas, the protagonist of the story, earns a living by breeding and selling horses. This is a simple and fair person, highly appreciating his honor and dignity. Once he goes to Leipzig and, crossing the border, sees ...

The play takes place at the beginning of the 19th century. in the Dutch village of Guizum, near Utrecht, in January. The scene is the court chamber. Adam, the village judge, sits and bandages his leg. Licht, the clerk, comes in and sees that Adam's whole face is in abrasions, a crimson bruise under his eye, a piece of meat is torn from his cheek....

Disciple The narration is on behalf of the Disciple. He says that Teacher, exercising his feelings, acquired an extraordinary ability to simultaneously hear, see, touch and think; he played with forces and phenomena, "the stars were people to him, people were stars." The Apprentice did not know how to understand him. Nature In the old days ...

The tragedy was written in 1806-07 and is based on one version of the myth of Penthesilea and Achilles. The action takes place on the battlefield near Troy. Odysseus, Antilochus and Diomedes talk about the Queen of the Amazons Pentesilea, who led the troops to lift the siege from Troy. Odysseus had already offered her to give up intentions, ...

In the center of the drama is the battle of Ferbellin (1675), which largely determined the fate of Germany. Prince Friedrich Arthur of Homburg, cavalry general, sits in a sleepy daze at night under a tree in the castle garden and weaves a laurel wreath. Elector of Bradenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm; elector, princess ...

The work is based on the legend of the famous XIII century minnesinger. Heinrich von Ofterdingen. The external event canvas is only a necessary material shell for depicting the deep inner process of the poet's formation and for Henry to comprehend the life ideal, allegorically depicted ...

The action takes place in the ancient Greek city of Abdera. This city, located in Thrace, has become famous in the history of mankind for the stupidity of its inhabitants, like the German city of Schilda or the Swiss city of Lalenburg. The only sane person in Abdera is the philosopher Democritus. He is from ...

The valley surrounded by mountains, in it there are tents and the altar of Abel (the tomb of Abel, killed by his brother, Cain). Adam prays at the altar, and his son, Seth, and one of the great-granddaughters, Zelima, speak among themselves. Zelima is happy - after all, today Adam must “introduce her into the marriage canopy,” she marries the wise Heman, whom ...

At the center of the unfinished play is the image of an ancient Greek thinker, statesman, poet, physician Empedocles, who lived in 483-423. BC e. The action takes place in the homeland of the philosopher - in the town of Agrigent in Sicily. Vestal Panthea secretly leads his guest Ray to the house of Empedocles, so that she ...

During the Crusades at the end of the XII century. the crusaders are defeated in their third campaign and are forced to conclude a truce with the Arab sultan Saladin, who rules Jerusalem. Twenty captive knights were brought into the city, and all, with the exception of one, were executed by order of Saladin. Survivor ...

The lyric novel - the largest work of the writer - is written in epistolary form. The name of the protagonist - Hyperion - refers to the image of the titan, the father of the sun god Helios, whose mythological name means High-Seated. It seems that the action of the novel, which is a kind of "spiritual ...

While Jesus weary of prayer sleeps in a quiet sleep on the Mount of Olives, the Almighty "among the myriad radiant worlds" talks with the Archangels. The Archangel Eloa announces that the Messiah is called to bestow sacred joy and salvation on all worlds. Gabriel brings this message to the “guardians of kingdoms and nations ...

The action takes place in 1960-1961. in the GDR. The main character, Rita Seidel, a student who worked during the holidays at the car factory, is in the hospital after she almost fell under the carriages maneuvering along the tracks. Subsequently, it turns out that it was a suicide attempt. In the hospital ...

The story begins with several obituary notices of the death of a current of seventeen-year-old Edgar Vibo. Then follows the dialogue of the mother and father of the deceased youth. The two broke up when their son was only five years old. Since then, his father never saw him, except for one case when his son came ...

Germany, Berlin, the second world war. On the day of the surrender of France, the postman brings to the house of cabinetmaker Otto Quangel the news that their son died the death of the brave for the Fuhrer. This terrible blow awakens in the soul of Anna, the wife of Otto, the hatred of Nazism, which has ripened for a long time. Otto and Anna ...

Captain von Schlett tries on a new uniform commissioned at the studio of a military tailor, Jew Adolf Wormser, in Potsdam. This is a very famous atelier of the century atelier, Wormser - the royal court supplier. Despite the assurance of the cutter Wabshke that the uniform sits on the captain like a glove, ...

The protagonist of the novel Caspar Hauser had a prototype - a real person who was written and talked about all over Europe. He suddenly appeared in 1828 in Nuremberg, this young stranger of about sixteen or seventeen, whose past was shrouded in mystery and whose short life was soon forcibly ...

The narration is conducted in the first person. The author and narrator, who owns the Lotus Beauty Institute, draws a few strokes of a picture of Berlin during the occupation, in the cold winter of 1947: the population suffers from hunger, the furniture that survived goes on kindling, the trade froze, no one pays taxes, ...