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1999 sees the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer and poet; this anniversary will attract a great deal of attention throughout the German-speaking world and internationally.
Goethe's works form a particular area of specialism within the Department of German at Cambridge and for 1999 the Department is planning an extensive series of events.
In the Lent Term (January-March) there will be a series of public lectures and recitals, inaugurated on Wednesday, 20 January, by Professor Patrick Boyde with a slide-lecture on Goethe's journey to Italy (details on p. 265).
An exhibition will take place in the University Library during the Lent Term in parallel to the lecture series.
On 29 and 30 January the University Opera Society in conjunction with the University Chamber Orchestra will be putting on the first modern performance of the setting of Goethe's operetta Erwin and Elmire by Anna Amalia, Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Weimar.
On 23 and 24 September, an academic conference (invitation only) will be held at Sidney Sussex College entitled Goethe and the English-speaking World.
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Cambridge University Reporter, 13 January 1999
Copyright © 1999 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.