Goethe in Leipzig
Follows in the footsteps of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He came here in 1765, at the age of 16, to study law. Katharina Schönkopf, called Käthchen, was the addressee of his first poems, found together in the “Songbook Annette”. On the 28. August 1829, the Prince of Poets visited Leipzig for the last time on the occasion of the first performance of his “Faust” and was enthusiastically celebrated. In “Poetry and Truth” he later remembered his student days in Leipzig. He may have received the inspiration for “Faust” in Auerbach’s Keller.