News & Events
Everything happening along the European Goethe Ways in one place — announcements from the association and the full calendar of assemblies, guided hikes, lectures and cultural events across the member network.
News & Announcements
On the Way to Cultural Route Certification
The association is preparing its candidacy as a Council of Europe Cultural Route, connecting Goethe sites and routes across five countries.
Route Flyer Now Available in Six Languages
Our flyer on the European Goethe Ways can now be downloaded in German, English, French, Italian, Polish and Czech.
The Member Network Continues to Grow
New member organisations from culture, education and tourism have joined the association — from Weimar and Frankfurt to Rome and Karlsbad.
News items are published by the association and appear here in full.
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NEWTON | GOETHE | GALILEO Reflections by Mischa Kuball
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.
Permanent exhibition about Goethe and Switzerland
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.
Ausstellungen Temporary Exhibition
Bis in die ersten Jahrzehnte des 19. Jahrhunderts waren Berichte und Darstellungen von Reiseerlebnissen und -beobachtungen eine ebenso beliebte wie verbreitete Literaturform. Im Spannungsfeld von wissenschaftlichem und literarischem, subjektivem und zeitkritischem Anspruch umfasst die Gattung ein breites Spektrum unterschiedlicher Darstellungsformen (beispielsweise Bericht, Tagebuch, Brief, Briefsammlung oder Autobiographie).
Auch im Hinblick auf Wahrnehmungsweisen von Eigen- und Fremderfahrung, ihren jeweiligen Authentizitätsanspruch, Stil und Beobachtungsgabe des Autors oder den Grad der Fiktionalisierung des Dargestellten weisen Reiseberichte große Unterschiede auf. Letztlich erlaubt lediglich das textexterne Phänomen der Reise eine formale Definition als literarische Gattung.
Events are listed chronologically; past events remain in the archive for reference.