Europäische Goethe-Wege e.V.
A registered charity based at Burgplatz 4 in Weimar, bringing Goethe’s multifaceted world of thought to life through itineraries across Europe — and building the community of cultural, educational and tourism institutions that carries them.
Board of Directors
Dr Hannes Höfer
President
Managing Director of the Goethe Society in Weimar e.V.
Françoise Tondre
Vice President
Vice President of the Federation of Natural Space Conservatories.
Dr Gregor Heinrich Lersch
Treasurer
Director of the Casa di Goethe in Rome.
Management
Dr Daniela Stefanie Hauf MA
Managing Director
Leads the association’s office and coordinates the candidacy for certification as a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe.
Member Organisations
- City of Aš
- Carlsbad Convention Bureau o.p.s.
- Les Voies de Goethe – France
- Working group Baroque Road Saar-Palatinate
- Freies Deutsches Hochstift – Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
- Goethe Society in Weimar
- City of Ilmenau
- Goethe Society Ilmenau-Stützerbach
- Wetzlar Goethe Society
- Goethe Museum Düsseldorf / Anton and Katharina Kippenberg Foundation
- Hüttenberg Local History Society
- Casa di Goethe
- Goethe Society Switzerland
- Tourism Museum Association
- Fondazione Sasso San Gottardo
15 member organisations in 5 countries
Czechia
France
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
Scientific Committee
Eleven researchers in literary studies, history and cultural tourism accompany the development of the European Goethe Ways — ensuring that every route, station and text presented along the way stands on solid scholarly ground, as required for certification as a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe.
11 researchers and practitioners in 6 countries
Germany
Prof. Dr. Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken
Director, Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum
Professor of Modern German Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt. Directs the DFG long-term edition of Clemens Brentano’s works and letters; the historical-critical hybrid edition of Goethe’s Faust appeared in 2018. Planned the German Romanticism Museum, opened in 2021. Vice-President and board member of the Goethe Society in Weimar since 2007.
Focus Translation, interculturality and world literature · editorial studies · literature and media
Prof. Dr. Sikander Singh
Director, Literature Archive Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace, Saarland University
Research and teaching on the literature of the eighteenth to the twenty-first century at the Saarbrücken campus.
Focus Enlightenment and Vormärz research · literature of the 18th–21st centuries · aesthetics of reception
Prof. Dr. Claus Zittel
Director, Stuttgart Research Centre for Text Studies
Co-director of the Laboratorio Bembo at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and lecturer in modern German literature and philosophy in Stuttgart and Venice. Editor of several journals and series, among them Nietzsche-Studien and Zeitsprünge. Heads the edition project on Goethe’s Venezianische Epigramme.
Focus Literary studies, philosophy, art history and the history of science
Klaus Friedrich
Cultural tourism and cultural mediation
Business assistant in international marketing and creative services, and initiator of the BarockStraße SaarPfalz. Speaker in adult education, cultural mediation and cultural tourism marketing. His concept underpinned “Alles Gute Goethe!”, the cross-border programme marking Goethe’s 275th birthday in 2024.
Focus Cultural tourism · cultural mediation · regional heritage
France
Prof. em. Dr. Raymond Heitz
Professor of Modern German Literature, Université de Lorraine – Metz
President of the Société Goethe de France since 2005.
Focus German literature and drama of the 18th–20th centuries · German-language periodicals of the 18th century · reception studies
Dr. Sabine Bengel
Art historian, Fondation de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg
Numerous publications on Strasbourg Cathedral, whose building and restoration history she has documented in detail.
Focus Gothic architecture and sculpture · Strasbourg Minster · Goethe and Strasbourg Cathedral
Françoise Tondre
Vice-Chairwoman, Federation of Conservatories of Natural Spaces
Formerly responsible for the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Also Vice President of the European Goethe Ways.
Focus Cultural routes · natural heritage · European cooperation
Italy
Switzerland
Poland
Related Downloads
Statutes
Satzung — adopted 14 June 2025
German, English and French side by side in one document
Membership Fee Regulations
Beitragsordnung — in force from 1 January 2026
German, English and French side by side in one document
Obligations and Advantages
Rights and duties of member organisations
German, English and French side by side in one document
Application for Membership
Aufnahmeantrag — includes direct debit authorisation
German, English and French side by side in one document
Entry in the Register of Associations
Amtsgericht Weimar — VR 131551 — 18 September 2024
Recognition of Charitable Status
Anerkennung der Gemeinnützigkeit — Finanzamt Jena, § 60a AO
European Goethe Ways — Route Flyer
Association flyer with the illustrated member map
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