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Goethe: Helena
(2010)
Although we are concentrating on the Third Act, Faust's appreciation of legend's most beautiful woman begins much earlier, perhaps as early as the Hexenkueche scene where he is thoroughly enraptured by a woman's image in a magical mirror. It drives him crazy, he says (2456), particularly since he has to stay at a certain distance to keep it in proper focus (2434); can you see Mephisto's mischievous smile at this bit of enforced "disinterested contemplation"? Woman is God's final art work, the true Crown of Creation, we learn from Schiller's Princess Eboli; Mephisto seems to say as much, and Faust like most men needs no convincing. We can't be sure that this is indeed Helen, we (and Faust) have yet to meet her. She remains nameless but, by any name, would be as sweet.
Gretchen's infanticide
(2010)
In the scene At The Well, Gretchen herself describes the sequence of events best and in all their fateful simplicity. It is the progress from "sin" to "shame", that is to public disgrace as soon as her private transgression becomes "visible" as pregnancy. Already here the painful confusion over her private perception ("good, dear love", lines 3585/6) and public judgment ("slut", line 3753) which will eventually drive her mad is obvious. In her derangement and despair she will destroy the evidence against her, that is, drown her child.
Goethe - Egmont
(2010)
Rilke und die Musik
(1959)
Rilke war im gebräuchlichen Sinne des Wortes unmusikalisch. Er hat das selbst wiederholt zugegeben. Er behielt keine Melodie, so einfach sie sein mochte, und so oft man sie ihm auch vorspielte. Auch seine Freunde berichten von diesem Zug. Hinzu kam eine tiefe Skepsis der Musik gegenüber, in der er etwas Verführendes und Berauschendes sah, was ihn zu einer allerdings kurzfristigen völligen Ablehnung dieser Kunstgattung führte.