Christiane and Goethe

The volume contains Sigrid Damm’s essayistic works created over the span of four decades and is accompanied by an introduction by the German philologist and writer Heinrich Detering.

It includes recent essays on Hermann Hesse, Ulrich Schacht, the film Leuchte, mein Stern, leuchte, works on the Totentanz cycle by the painter Lutz Friedel and...

Sigrid Damm tells the exciting story, rich in contradictions, highs and lows, personal and political vicissitudes, of the more than fifty years of friendship between Goethe and the Weimar Duke Carl August.

From June 15 onwards, the day that Goethe receives the news of his friend’s death, their two lives are explored in flashbacks. Goethe talks about their »most...

A sixty-year-old woman and a thirty-year-old man are hiking in the solitude of the far north for seven days, in the archaic landscape of Swedish Lapland, the home of the Sami people, the last indigenous people in Europe.

At night, dreams open otherworldly doors, during the day, the rhythm of the steps sets their memory in motion. Peace and war, birth and death, horizon lines, fire,...

Sigrid Damm’s new book presents a retrospective love for her father. All her life, she was in conflict with him, rejected him. It wasn’t until shortly before his death that a tentative relationship started to develop between the two. More than twenty years later, she begins to trace her father’s life.

She consults documents and old photos, which had been stored...

Goethe’s letters to Charlotte von Stein are some of the most beautiful examples of world literature. They are intimate documents of Goethe’s first decade at Weimar, which, during his lifetime, was shrouded in silence.

Unreservedly he shares with her all his doubts and fears, tells her of his successes and failures and of his artistic and socio-political work in the Duchy...

»And now I bid all my friends in Weimar and Gotha a faithful farewell! Your love accompanies me, as I could not continue without it…«

 Against a backdrop of wars and confusion, agreements and conflict between the neighboring courts of Gotha and Weimar, this book – based, as always, on Sigrid Damm’s meticulous research – reveals a largely unknown chapter of Goethe’s biography and...

After her bestselling works Christiane und Goethe, Das Leben des Friedrich Schiller, Goethes letzte Reise and with a total number of one million copies sold, Sigrid Damm presents a new work that invites the reader to a journey through her personal life.

A quest for happiness, a journey of self-discovery

It is the last year of the...

In August 1831, half a year before he died, Goethe, together with his grandsons Walther and Wolfgang traveled to Ilmenau in the forests of Thuringia, a place where he had often spent time. It was...

In the footsteps of the success of her »research« Christiane und Goethe, Sigrid Damm now presents another biographical portrait: Das Leben des Friedrich Schiller (The life of...