Ein charmantes Scharmützel

Charlotte Buff and Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the dream couple of German literature, entertainingly answer the question: What happens after the Wetzlar summer with the tempestuous Frankfurt poet, and how does the further life of the Amtmann’s daughter from the Deutschordenshof unfold? After Goethe's secret departure from Wetzlar on September 11, 1772, the suicide of Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem in October 1772 shakes the city. Johann Christian Kestner feels partially responsible and writes the events to his friend Goethe in Frankfurt; after this account, Goethe knows how his Werther novel will end... So the question arises whose story is told in the novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther": the love story between Charlotte Buff and Johann Wolfgang Goethe or the story of the unfortunate Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem? Charlotte Buff and Johann Wolfgang Goethe may not find it so easy to agree on this... Text and direction: Oliver Meyer-Ellendt