Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bibliography

The following is a list of the major publications of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). 142 volumes comprise the entirety of his literary output, ranging from the poetical to the philosophical, including 50 volumes of correspondence.

## Scientific texts

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* 1784: Über den Granit (About the Granite) (published posthumously in 1878)
* 1786: Über den Zwischenkiefer der Menschen und der Tiere (About the premaxilla of humans and animals)
* 1790: Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären (The Metamorphosis of Plants)
* 1791-92: Beiträge zur Optik (Contributions to Optics) (2 volumes)
* 1810: Zur Farbenlehre (The Theory of Colours)

## Autobiographical

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* 1811–1830: Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit (From my Life: Poetry and Truth) autobiographical work in 4 volumes
* 1817: Italienische Reise (Italian Journey), journals
* 1836 and 1848: Gespräche mit Goethe (Conversations with Goethe) also translated as: Conversations with Eckermann \- posthumous

## Non-fiction

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* 1793: Die Belagerung von Mainz (The Siege of Mainz), non-fiction
* July 1798–1801: Propyläen, periodical
* 1805: "Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert" ("Winckelmann and His Century")

## Prose

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### Novels

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* 1774: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther)
* 1809: Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities)

#### Wilhelm Meister novels

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* 1776: Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung (Ur-Meister) (Wilhelm Meister's Theatrical Program) - published in 1911
* 1796: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship)
* 1821, expanded in 1829: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder Die Entsagenden (Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants/Wilhelm Meister's Travels)

### Novellas

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* 1794–95: Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten (Conversations of German emigrants) - also includes the fairy tale Das Märchen
* 1828: Novella

### Short stories

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* 1795: "Das Märchen" ("The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily") - a fairy tale

## Poetry

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* 1769 "Ohne Hast, ohne Rast" ("Haste not, Rest not")
* 1771: "Heidenröslein" ("Heath Rosebud"),
* 1773: "Prometheus",
* 1774: "Der König in Thule",
* 1782: "Der Erlkönig" ("The Alder King"),
* 1790: Römische Elegien (Roman Elegies), collection
* 1794: Reineke Fuchs, epic fable
* 1795 "Ich Denke Dein" ("I Think of You")
* 1795–96 (in collaboration with Friedrich Schiller): Die Xenien (The Xenia), collection of epigrams
* 1797: "Der Zauberlehrling" (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), (which was later the basis of a symphonic poem by Paul Dukas, which in turn was animated by Disney in Fantasia)
* 1797: "Die Braut von Korinth"[1] ("The Bride of Corinth"),
* 1798: Hermann und Dorothea (Hermann and Dorothea), epic
* 1798: Die Weissagungen des Bakis (The Soothsayings of Bakis)
* 1799: "The First Walpurgis Night",
* 1813: "Gefunden" ("Found"),
* 1819: Westöstlicher Diwan, variously translated as The West-Eastern Divan, The Parliament of East and West, or otherwise; collection of poems in imitation of Sufi and other Sunni Muslim poetry, including that of Hafez.
* 1823: "Marienbad Elegy",

## Drama

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* 1773: Götz von Berlichingen
* 1774: Clavigo, tragedy in five acts, written in May 1774, premiered in Hamburg on August 23, 1774.
* 1775: Stella, tragedy in five acts (created between 1803 and 1805 from the first version of 1775, the play was premiered in Weimar on January 15, 1806)
* 1776: Claudine von Villa Bella [de]
* 1787: Iphigenie auf Tauris (Iphigenia in Tauris)
* 1788: Egmont
* 1790: Torquato Tasso
* 1803: Die Natürliche Tochter (The Natural Daughter), play originally intended as the first part of a trilogy on the French Revolution
* 1808: Faust, Part One, closet drama in verse
* 1832: Faust, Part Two, closet drama in verse

## References

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1. ^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Die Braut von Korinth. Literaturwelt.com, retrieved April 13, 2011

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Poems|

* Epiphanias
* Erlkönig
* Die erste Walpurgisnacht
* Ganymed
* Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
* Gingo biloba
* Harzreise im Winter
* Heidenröslein
* Hermann and Dorothea
* Der König in Thule
* Marienbad Elegy
* Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
* Prometheus
* Roman Elegies
* The Sorcerer's Apprentice
* Welcome and Farewell
* Wanderer's Nightsong
* West–östlicher Divan
* Xenien

Plays|

* Der Bürgergeneral
* Clavigo
* Faust
* Faust I
* Faust II
* Egmont
* Erwin und Elmire
* Götz von Berlichingen
* Iphigenia in Tauris
* The Magic Flute Part Two (libretto fragment)
* The Natural Daughter
* Stella
* Torquato Tasso

Prose|

* Elective Affinities
* The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily
* The Sorrows of Young Werther
* Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
* Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years

Autobiographical|

* Dichtung und Wahrheit
* Italian Journey

Journals|

* Propyläen

Natural sciences|

* Metamorphosis of Plants
* Theory of Colours

Conversations|

* Gespräche mit Goethe

Related|

* Christine Vulpius (wife)
* Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (mother)
* Goethean science
* Weimar Classicism
* Goethe-Institut
* Goethe Medal
* Goethe House (Weimar)
* National Museum
* Goethe House (Frankfurt)
* Goethe-Gesellschaft
* Goethe Monument (Berlin)
* Goethe–Schiller Monument (Weimar)
* Goethe–Schiller Monument (Milwaukee)
* Goethe Prize
* Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
* Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen
* Goethe Society of North America
* Goetheanum
* Goethe in the Roman Campagna (1787 painting)
* Goethe at the Window (1786/7 painting)
* Lotte in Weimar (1939 Thomas Mann novel)
* Lotte in Weimar (1975 film)
* A Man in Love (2008 novel)
* Young Goethe in Love (2010 film)
* Goethe: Life as a Work of Art (2013 biography)

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