
Goethe!
Johann Goethe is 23 and studies law.
He talks a lot and drinks no less...
Today is his doctoral examination.
The doctoral exam...
Goethe. Spelled with an "oe. "
Do you know the exact wording
of the Augustinian Principle?
Of course.
Yes?
What is it?
The wording?
The principles of common law
are not only categorical but also...
Is nut, much rather
Augustine himself a...
principle of
me, you, us? A principle of us.
Doesn't the assumption
that it is more of a principle
than of actual existence
make his principle
and its exact wording irrelevant?
At least in principle.
Maybe it's both or reversed or... or...
The young man is boldly crazy.
Boldly crazy? Nut at all!
Boldly crazy is a child
who kills his mother and father
and calls for mercy
because he's now orphaned.
That is crazy...
and bold.
Failed.
You should have
opened a book now and then.
Namely a textbook.
- Nut this nonsense by Lessing,
Shakeslear or whatever
those scribblers are called.
And best regards to your father!
Our dear Goethe, spelled "oe. "
We should write
KISS MY ASS!
Guetz, colon.
Give me
some water to drink. "
Freedom.
Guetz vun Berlichingen. "
It is dune.
Shit!
What's this? Get off! - Express mail.
It has to be in Leipzig tomorrow.
I see.
- It's the original. There's no copy.
I trust you.
Seems quite important.
- Important? My life is at stake!
into the forest's delight.
The lark soars and whirs.
Calls.
in boundless glory...
Johann, you old scoundrel. - What are
you doing at this horrid reading?
I was about to ask you the same.
- Everything but listening.
- I bet he rhymes it with "heart. "
Such grandiloquence!
- Even worse:
People like itWhere is true art?
- Mine has been sent off. - Really?
Out of your brain, onto the page?
- In the mail...
Off and away.
- Goetz con Berlichingen dune and sent?
I dare bet it'll be published in no time.
- To true art!
The wildest thoughts!
Passionate. Abysmal. And forbidden.
Against reason. -Against rationality.
- Against the rules.
To passion.
- To "Sturm"... - and drink!
TWO WEEKS LATER:
Child's play!
All of it is child's play!
King of Thule! Erl King!
How old are you?
Let me be, Father.
- I let you belong enough.
"Filling wood and vale you cast
Quiet misty sheen
And for once release at last
All my soul serene. "
What is this nonsense about?
It is addressed to the moon.
To the moon?
Are you a woman or a man?
Just so you know,
I refuse to finance this ridiculous
scribbling and rhyming any longer.
The highest order of reasoning is...
- If I do as you say.
Exactly!
Exactly.
I wrote Kammermeier, who is President
of the Supreme Court of Justice.
They'd offer you an apprenticeship.
- In Wetzlar, that godforsaken backwater?
Never!
- It wasn't meant as a question.
Am I interrupting?
This just arrived for you from Leipzig.
Well, here you go, Father.
From now on,
you may well stop financing me.
Because from now on, my ridiculous
scribbling will support me just fine.
"... Thank you for your manuscript.
It is certainly proof of great diligence
and effort... we have to inform you
that we consider your play
to be completely free of all talent...
unbelievable characters,
bumbling rhymes,
a call to take justice
into one's own hands. "
One of life's lessons
is to recognize your abilities
and your inabilities.
My sun,
you will surely become
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