Schiller Street, SE Portland, Oregon

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"Goethe and Schiller and Me: Reflections on Figuring out Literature While Teaching Others about It and Life Too in a Language They Don't Talk Very Good Yet," Teaching German in America: Past Progress and Future Promise, George F. Peters, ed., Cherry Hill, NJ: American Association of Teachers of German, 2002; ISBN: 0-924017-90-0
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Collection of images cited in the article (mouse images to see full-size versions in separate windows). The images are in the order that their related topics are mentioned in the article.

my WG materials (Erlk & Faust); BR Sechslinge, Skistock

Archive of web pages cited in the article / with link to original if it existed as of X date

The certificate in my book prize, Der Briefwechsel zwischen Goethe und Schiller

Mickey Mouse as the Sorceror's Apprentice in an add for Walt Disney World on Ice

The (now) Korean Church, Portland, Oregon, formerly a German-American church>>

Tower of the Korean Church,with German cornerstone at left and Korean/English signboard at right>>

Picture of Goethe Street in Portland (not ready yet)

Korean church: the original cornerstone, in German

Façade of the Multnomah County Public Library, Portland, Oregon (1912/13), >>>

with Goethe and Schiller (and Sheridan and Alfieri) listed among the literary greats of the time

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Schiller Street in southeast Portand. The name survived WWI; but Frankfurt, Frederick, Bismarck and Karl Streets became, resp., Lafayette, Pershing, Bush (!) and Haig (!)

Stammbuchblatt (autograph album page), written in English by Goethe (from the Yale facsimile edition, 1932)

A fragment of Faust in Goethe's own hand (from the Yale facsimile edition, 1932)

Silhouette of Goethe, 1786 (from the Yale facsimile edition, 1932)

 

Goethe on his deathbed, by Friedrich Preller (from the Yale facsimile edition, 1932)

Andy Warhol's portrait (1982) of Goethe, echoing the iconic Tischbein painting. Exhibited at the Casa di Goethe in Rome

Parody of the Tischbein painting on the cover of a German science fiction magazine

A German major's paper about German literature. Click to see the first page, with the professor's game corrections.

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Wie gesagt materials (coming)
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Links to pages cited in the article (coming)