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In Weimar, Dishing the Dirt on Goethe ; 250th Birthday Salute Offers Mixed Messages On Poet, City
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19990904
Author:Nikla Gibson
A bust of Germany's most revered son comes in orange plastic that glows in the dark, his poems adorn ladies' stockings and a cookbook lists the great man's favorite recipes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe--poet, novelist, scientist and all- around genius to the German-speaking world--was born 250 years ago on Aug. 28, and his adopted east German home town is leading the celebrations.
"It is all a bit primitive," admitted Juergen Seifert, president of the Weimar Classic Foundation, which preserves Goethe's legacy in the town. "But it is just this year, a sort of getting it out of our system."
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