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Author seeks to debunk myth about Goethe German poet, writer was gay, new book claims

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19970918
Author:IAN TRAYNOR

Germany's cultural grandees could be in for the shock of their lives this week, and generations of ordinary German adults will be dredging up the half-remembered poems and plays they learned by rote at school to have another think about them.

In his new book, "The Tiger's Tender Touch," in stores this week, author Karl Hugo Pruys declares that Germany's national poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was gay.

"Thousands of Goethe biographies and studies will have to be rewritten," Pruys says. "Goethe had no serious, meaningful relationships with women in contrast to his countless relationships ...

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