goethe - werther - eisermann

His first novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" made Johann Wolfgang von Goethe a veritable pop star in 1774".

Boys dressed like the suicidal literary role model, people drank their tea from Werther collection cups and there were allegedly even Werther-inspired suicides. Exceptional actor André Eisermann, together with his composer and pianist Jakob Vinje, has been on a reading tour of Goethe's epistolary novel for many years.