The full text of the Weimar Edition of Goethe's Works

The complete corpus of Goetheís written work is a source of unique importance for students of German literature, language and history.

Goethe (1749-1832) was Germanyís supreme poet and a writer who exercised a profound influence on the German language of today. He was also a man of affairs with wide connections in the German ruling class, and a scientist who played an important role in the development of the natural sciences in Germany.

Goethes Werke contains the complete text of the 143 volumes of the definitive Weimar Edition. Every word of Goetheís literary and scientific works, his diaries and his letters from the Weimar Edition is included, as are all illustrations, notes, variants and indexes from the published volumes. Also included are Goethes Gespr‰che, edited by Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann, Leipzig, 1889-96, and Goethes Werke, Nachtr‰ge zur Weimarer Ausgabe, edited by Paul Raabe, Munich, 1990. The Nachtr‰ge include all Goethe's letters discovered since the Weimar Edition was finished and makes this the most complete collection of Goetheís letters in existence.