I wasn’t planning to see “Der Freischütz” (The Marksman) on Saturday night. A seminal work of German Romanticism that was hugely influential on German opera, it is seldom staged in the United States, ...

“Moonrise Over the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German romantic. (Jörg P. Anders/bpk Bildagentur/National Gallery, Berlin State Museums/Art Resource) Review by Sebastian Smee NEW ...

FRANKFURT. “Bliss” and “Ossian”: these are the two keywords outlining the thematic areas explored by the two scholars who have won the Klaus Heyne Award for Research in German Romanticism at Goethe ...

HISTORIES of German literature usually distinguish a Romantic School of writers whose activities began in the closing years of the eighteenth century and continued until the fourth decade of the ...

At a four-day house party in a corner of the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar in 1799, the guests indulged in “vertiginous bouncing between poetry, art, science, philosophy and religion”, as Andrea Wulf puts it ...

The epochal Battle of Jena was fought on Oct. 14, 1806. A massive French army under Napoleon cut off Prussian and Saxon troops from access to the Elbe River and from possible Russian reinforcements.

The 2026 recipients are the philosopher Dr Kirill Chepurin and the art historian Dr Elisabeth Ansel. “Bliss” and “Ossian”: these are the two keywords outlining the thematic areas explored by the two ...