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Geothe's 250th Birthday Celebrated
From: AP Online
Date: 19990828
Author:GEORGE BOEHMER, Associated Press Writer
GEORGE BOEHMER, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
08-28-1999
Geothe's 250th Birthday Celebrated
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Germans crowded into Frankfurt and Weimar by the thousands Saturday to celebrate the 250th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the nation's world renowned poet.
Dozens of men dressed in black-tailed suits and cylinder hats and women in the costumes of Goethe's time strolled in the streets around Frankfurt's Alte Oper, the city's opera house where Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder presented the Goethe prize to 73-year-old German author Siegfried Lenz.
Frankfurt Mayor Petra ...
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