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Die Leiden des jungen Werther - Monodram nach dem Roman von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Monday, 11/30/2026 at 7:30 PM

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Die Leiden des jungen Werther - Monodram nach dem Roman von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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What to do when love drives you to madness? Who am I – reflected in the gaze of the Other? The young Werther falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lotte, who is already engaged to another. Passionately and with fiery impetuosity, he plunges into an emotional rollercoaster – constantly wavering between euphoric exuberance and absolute despair. Gradually, a delicate love triangle unfolds between Lotte, her fiancé Albert, and Werther: The rational and composed Albert, the heated and feverish Werther, and Lotte, who sends signals in both directions, become increasingly entangled in a fateful predicament from which there seems to be only one violent way out... Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 – one of the most important texts of the Sturm und Drang movement – explores both the search for the self and the struggle against societal boundaries. Even over 260 years ago, this fluttering love story became an absolute bestseller and sparked a real Werther hype.

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Die Leiden des jungen Werther

Classic by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Young Werther has just moved out of home when he meets Lotte and falls in love with her immortally. But Lotte is already engaged to Albrecht and will soon marry him. Werther experiences a rollercoaster of emotions between hope, longing, and despair. His unfulfilled love and the constraints of the bourgeois society, in which he constantly feels excluded, become increasingly unbearable. Werther thinks about suicide.
More than 250 years after the publication of Goethe's epistolary novel, Werther's tragic fate is still as captivating, timelessly relevant, and emotionally moving as it was then.

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What to do when love drives you to madness? Who am I – reflected in the gaze of the Other? The young Werther falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lotte, who is already engaged to another. Passionately and with fiery impetuosity, he plunges into an emotional rollercoaster – constantly wavering between euphoric exuberance and absolute despair. Gradually, a delicate love triangle unfolds between Lotte, her fiancé Albert, and Werther: The rational and composed Albert, the heated and feverish Werther, and Lotte, who sends signals in both directions, become increasingly entangled in a fateful predicament from which there seems to be only one violent way out... Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 – one of the most important texts of the Sturm und Drang movement – explores both the search for the self and the struggle against societal boundaries. Even over 260 years ago, this fluttering love story became an absolute bestseller and sparked a real Werther hype.

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What to do when love drives you to madness? Who am I – reflected in the gaze of the Other? The young Werther falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lotte, who is already engaged to another. Passionately and with fiery impetuosity, he plunges into an emotional rollercoaster – constantly wavering between euphoric exuberance and absolute despair. Gradually, a delicate love triangle unfolds between Lotte, her fiancé Albert, and Werther: The rational and composed Albert, the heated and feverish Werther, and Lotte, who sends signals in both directions, become increasingly entangled in a fateful predicament from which there seems to be only one violent way out... Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 – one of the most important texts of the Sturm und Drang movement – explores both the search for the self and the struggle against societal boundaries. Even over 260 years ago, this fluttering love story became an absolute bestseller and sparked a real Werther hype.

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The young Johann Wolfgang Goethe has a big dream of becoming a poet. However, his father sends him to university to learn something more "decent," where Johann Wolfgang messes up the law exam and is ordered by his angry father to the Reichskammergericht in Wetzlar to sort files. Only his friend Wilhelm Jerusalem takes him seriously. And then he falls head over heels in love with the lively Charlotte Buff.…
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