Word: kestner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot it is simple enough: at 63, Charlotte Kestner, née Buff, who in her youth inspired young Goethe to the writing of Werther, turns up in Weimar, ostensibly to visit relatives, more privately and far more shakily, in the thought of meeting Goethe once more, in the full-blown, chilly grandeur of his age. She is besieged by gawpers, beset by callers who wish to talk to and make some use of her; Goethe stages, in her honor, a formal luncheon; she meets him again, more intimately, in his theatre box; and that...