Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bibliography explained

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Novels

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

Wilhelm Meister Trilogy

• 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

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

Short stories

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

Poetry

• 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

• 1773: Götz von Berlichingen
• 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:
• 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

Notes and References

1. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]