Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy is the first part of Goethe's Faust and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. It was first published in 1808. The first part of Faust is not divided into acts, but is structured as a sequence of scenes in a variety of settings. After a dedicatory poem and a prelude in the theater, the actual plot begins with a prologue in Heaven, where the Lord challenges Mephistopheles, the Devil, that Mephistopheles cannot lead astray the Lord's favourite striving scholar, Dr. Faust. We then see Faust in his study, who, disappointed of science with natural means, attempts and fails to gain knowledge of nature and the universe by magical ones. The dejected Faust contemplates suicide, but is held back by the sounds of the beginning Easter celebrations. He joins his assistant Wagner for an Easter walk in the countryside, among the celebrating people, and is followed home by a poodle. Back in the study, the poodle transforms itself into Mephistopheles, who offers Faust a contract: he will do Faust's bidding on earth, and Faust will do the same for him in hell (if, as Faust adds in an important side clause, Mephisto can get him to be satisfied and to want a moment to last forever). Faust signs in blood, and Mephisto first takes him to Auerbach's tavern in Leipzig, where the devil plays tricks on some drunken revellers. Having then been transformed into a young man by a witch, Faust encounters Margaret (Gretchen) and she excites his desires. Through a scheme involving jewellery and Gretchen's neighbour Marthe, Mephisto brings about Faust's and Gretchen's liaison. After a period of separation, Faust seduces Gretchen, who accidentally kills her mother with a sleeping potion Faust had given her. Gretchen is pregnant, and her torment is further increased when Faust and Mephisto kill her enraged brother in a sword fight.
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 56-60
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Keats, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Arno Holz, Wilhelm Busch, Georg Heym, Heinrich Heine, Franz Werfel, Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Edgar Allan Poe
audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 46-50
Ludwig Kalisch, Else Lasker-Schüler, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, Arno Holz, John Keats, Heinrich Heine, Karl Kraus, Georg Heym, Joachim Ringelnatz, Ludwig Tieck, Franz Werfel, Kurt Tucholsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jakob van Hoddis, Wilhelm Busch
audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 41-45
Karl Kraus, Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wolfgang Borchert, Georg Trakl, Wilhelm Busch, John Keats, Georg Heym, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Else Lasker-Schüler, Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Arno Holz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Ludwig Tieck, Frank Wedekind, Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern
audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 36-40
John Keats, Georg Heym, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Wilhelm Busch, Joachim Ringelnatz, Arno Holz, Stefan Zweig, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edgar Allan Poe, Ludwig Tieck, Charles Baudelaire, Frank Wedekind, Ludwig Kalisch, Heinrich Heine, Kurt Tucholsky, Franz Werfel, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 31-35
Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Keats, Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, Charles Baudelaire, Wilhelm Busch, Christian Morgenstern, Arno Holz, Georg Heym, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Karl Kraus, Georg Trakl, Ludwig Tieck, Joachim Ringelnatz, Rainer Maria Rilke
audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 26-30
Heinrich Heine, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern
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Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, John Keats, Joseph von Eichendorff, Christian Morgenstern, Joachim Ringelnatz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kurt Tucholsky, Wilhelm Busch
audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 6-10
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Christian Morgenstern, Joachim Ringelnatz, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Baudelaire, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph von Eichendorff, Ludwig Tieck, Wilhelm Busch
audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 1-5
Edgar Allan Poe, Christian Morgenstern, Joachim Ringelnatz, John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Busch, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Tieck, Franz Werfel, Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joseph von Eichendorff, Kurt Tucholsky
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