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Römermuseum Schwarzenacker im europäischen Fokus: Beigeordneter Philipp Scheidweiler begrüßte Dr. Daniela Stefanie Hauf und Piotr Michałowski in Homburg

Was verbindet die römische Geschichte Schwarzenackers mit der barocken Kulturlandschaft der Saarpfalz und den Reisen Johann Wolfgang Goethes? Die Antwort liegt auch in den historischen Verbindungen, die unsere Region bis heute mit Europa verknüpfen. Im Römermuseum Schwarzenacker konnten sich Dr. Daniela Stefanie Hauf, Geschäftsführerin des Vereins Europäische Goethe-Wege e.V., und Piotr Michałowski, unabhängiger Experte im Auftrag des Europarates, davon überzeugen. Begrüßt wurden die Gäste von Philipp Scheidweiler, Beigeordneter der Stadt Homburg und Geschäftsführer des Römermuseums. Ihr Besuch war Teil einer Evaluierungsreise im Zusammenhang mit der angestrebten Anerkennung der Europäischen Goethe-Wege e.V. als Kulturroute des Europarates.

European Goethe Ways: Field Visit im Deutschen Romantik-Museum und Frankfurter Goethe-Haus

Am Vormittag des 7. Oktober 2026 begann in Frankfurt am Main der Field Visit, mit dem die European Goethe Ways (Europäische Goethe-Wege e.V.) im Hinblick auf ihre Anerkennung als Kulturroute des Europarates begutachtet werden. Das Freie Deutsche Hochstift ist Gründungsmitglied des Vereins.

7 to 9 October Field Visit, as part of the evaluation process

From 7 to 9 October, as part of the evaluation process following the application for certification as a Council of Europe Cultural Route, the Independent Expert’s so-called ‘field visit’ took place. The aim was to gain an overview of the organisational structures over the course of the three days and to get to know as many different stakeholders and circumstances within the European Goethe Ways as possible.

15th Annual Advisory Forum on the Cultural Routes in Yerevan, Armenia

The 15th Annual Advisory Forum on the Cultural Routes was dedicated to deepening the role of Education in promoting sustainable heritage through the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe and took place from 23-25 September in Yerevan, Armenia focusing on “Routes through Time and Cultures: Education for Sustainable Heritage”.

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Apr 2026

NEWTON | GOETHE | GALILEO Reflections by Mischa Kuball

Casa Di Goethe Museum · Until 4 Oct 2026 · Open to the Public

The exhibition opens with the installation Newton/Goethe (luce nera), created specifically for this occasion. Here, the historical debate on refraction and color theory can be experienced in a way that fills the entire space. Goethe’s intensive study of light and color found expression in his treatise “Theory of Colors”, published in 1810. In it, he explicitly rejected Newton’s physical model, according to which color arises from the decomposition of white light into spectral colors. While Newton understood color as an objective property of light, Goethe placed human perception at the center: for him, colors arise in the transition between light and darkness and are inseparably linked to the observing subject. His approach was holistic, and he understood color as a phenomenon of experience. Although his theory remained controversial from a scientific perspective, it had a lasting impact on art, the theory of perception, and aesthetics, and continues to shape the thinking of numerous artists to this day.

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May 2026

Permanent exhibition about Goethe and Switzerland

Museum Sasso San Gottardo · Until 11 Oct 2026 · Open to the Public

The Sasso SanGottardo museum features the first and only permanent exhibition in Switzerland dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his three historic journeys through the Gotthard Pass.

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Aug 2026

Exhibition “On the first day of my stay…”

An exhibition by the Literaturarchiv Saar-Lor-Lux-Elsass · Until 3 Nov 2026 · Open to the Public

The Greater Region in travel writing from the early Enlightenment to the Vormärz.

Until the first decades of the 19th century, accounts and depictions of travel experiences and observations were a literary form as popular as it was widespread. Poised between scientific and literary, subjective and socially critical aims, the genre embraces a wide range of forms (such as the report, the diary, the letter, the collection of letters or the autobiography).

Travel accounts also differ widely in how they perceive the familiar and the foreign, in their claims to authenticity, in the author’s style and powers of observation, and in how far what they depict is fictionalised. In the end, only the journey itself — a phenomenon outside the text — allows them to be defined formally as a literary genre.

Events are listed chronologically; past events remain in the archive for reference.

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