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Even Angela Merkel was impressed by him. Neil MacGregor is a much honored and very busy man. On October 1, he takes the founding artistic director of the Berlin Humboldt-Forum, by the end of the Born in 1946, Scotsman is currently director of the British Museum in London, in Mumbai it is to build a new Museum of World Cultures with. He has a book about Shakespeare and wrote “A History of the World in 100 objects”. In brief, his new band “Germany appears. Memories of a nation. “. MacGregor was now in Weimar, for the birthday of the poet, with the Goethe Medal of the Goethe Institute awarded, together with the Syrian philosopher Sadiq al Azm, who lives in exile in Berlin, and the theater director Eva Sopher from Porto Alegre. The now 92-year-old fled the mid-thirties from the Nazis to Brazil. Your birth as of Goethe, Frankfurt am Main. We print MacGregors speech Goethe Medal slightly shortened. He wrote and kept them in German.
Thanks to the “Faust” seal, we all know how dangerous it would be to actually say that I now enjoy the highest moment. It would also, and without rudeness, is not it. Because my joy actually mitigated by reduced is yes, that I have to give a speech in German
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If German as a foreigner, you learn at the Goethe Institute, for example, then you will very quickly surprised by the richness, the bottomless, unfathomable richness of the German vocabulary, or rather overwhelmed. In the works of Goethe, one learns, are so many words to count as in Shakespeare almost twice. Thanks to such a lush, sprawling encyclopedia, suspects jealous of foreigners have German speakers a more complex, nuanced, ultimately experiencing intense world than others and can enjoy.
An example. If we – in English – want to be happy, then we are simply happy, in the extreme case, very happy. But if I were German and would get good news, then I could not only be happy, but also exult, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice. And because I have studied a little German: When I received the surprising news that it had awarded me the Goethe Medal, so I was not only in English, extremely happy, but could also, as already Germano audiophile exult, rejoice, exult and rejoice.
On August 28, 252 years ago, Goethe received his fourth birthday gift of a life-determining puppet theater. His delight is known about it, but could not have been greater than what I feel today. A few weeks ago I received a questionnaire from the Goethe Institute. It read: Who would you suggest for the Goethe Medal? I answered immediately: Christopher Clark, author of “Sleepwalker”. I have also asked who would Goethe proposed himself for his medal?
First, I had the disconcerting for a British idea of the winners might have been Napoleon. In Erfurt, on 2 October 1808 Goethe would personally can give the self-proclaimed Emperor Medal. Goethe and Napoleon: a sign that even then existed in Europe two Grandes Nations. But without national pride I think I may say that Goethe, the compulsion of all chronological considerations freed, would have chosen without hesitation Shakespeare to his medalists. “The first page, I read you in it,” Goethe wrote in 1771, “made my life time peculiar to him. I jumped into the open air and felt only that I had hands and feet. Nature, Nature, nothing so natural as Shakespeare’s People “And still further:”. Shakespeare, my friend, if you were still with us, I could live nowhere than with you. How gladly would I, the supporting role of Pylades play when you’re Orestes. “
There was something in Shakespeare, Goethe allowed, quite directly perceive his own ideas and ideals. Shakespeare revealed that there is a language that can be expressed with the deep thoughts and feelings Goethe unaffected. When English poet he learned how he could give the Germanness an authentic voice.
And that’s when for me the inspiring Goethe. He knew in all traditions – English, Persian, Greek, Indian – to draw intelligence and wisdom. In his house at Weimar Frauenplan plants and minerals, works of art and plaster casts were collected from all countries. The world under one roof, so that they’ll studied and recorded. And it is precisely this intellectual cosmopolitanism allowed him to be the personification of the highest German spirit. Nothing was alien to him:
Herrlich is the Orient
across the Mediterranean penetrated;
Only those who love Hafiz and knows,
Knows what Calderón sung.
Europe is the self-knowledge come only when the non-European studying and make it his own. For Europe, have become major social risks back into the xenophobia and nationalism, Goethe remains for us all exemplary and necessary.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre was so named because discover London on that stage all over the world that all mankind should get to know. As Theatrum Mundi it should act, just like Goethe’s house Museum on the Frauenplan, his British Museum
“All the world’s a stage” -. The whole world is a stage. “And all the men and women Merely Players / And you one in his time plays many parts” – “and everyone plays many roles in his life,” it says in Shakespeare. The question is always the same. We want what role, we are in this Theatrum Mundi, playing this puppet theater in the world?
In what Shakespearean role would Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, the president of the Goethe Institute (and before that president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation ) occur most? One can not doubt nor hesitation. He would Prospero. In “Storm” white Prospero his little island through his magical powers to reshape. Thanks to his magic new visions, new worlds are caused. That Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, done on his island, the Museum Island in Berlin. He has not only the island, but a whole town charms he has there caused a new world that is gradually visible for all of us and the Humboldt Forum’s.
As a Theatrum Mundi, Theater der Welt to the whole of humanity occur there as an actor but also as a poet. It is actually, in the famous words of Prospero’s daughter Miranda to “A Brave New World”. Hopefully we will able to realize this vision spell
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