"Goethe at the health resort" - Goethe Day with costume tour and film on 3 September 2023, Porzellanikon Hohenberg a.d. Eger
On Sunday, 3 September 2023, Porzellanikon is organising a Goethe Day in Hohenberg a.d. Eger as part of the special exhibition "Luxury, Wellness, Porcelain - A Day at the Bohemian Spa".
Goethe Day begins at 13:00 with a costume tour with museum educationalist Nadine Zentgraf as Princess Marie. She will take museum guests on a journey back in time to an era when emperors, kings and poets travelled to Bohemia to take the waters. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, politician and naturalist, also travelled to Bohemia for a cure. According to Princess Marie, Goethe combined his health, social and even scientific interests with his spa visits. The poet even found his last great love in Marienbad, where he fell in love with the nineteen-year-old Ulrike von Levetzow at the age of seventy-four and asked her to marry him. Princess Marie also knows that Goethe's beloved was an avid collector of the bubble cups that spa guests used to drink the healing waters. Goethe wrote about his unhappy love for the young woman in Bohemia in the desperate verses of the "Marienbad Elegy". During the entertaining costume tour, Princess Marie lets museum guests relive a sophisticated era in which participants can feel like spa guests and marvel at magnificent Bohemian luxury porcelain that impresses with its delicacy and elaborate paintings. During a visit to the photo studio, anyone who has always wanted to be a princess or prince can slip into costume and have their photo taken.
Price: €1.00 Sunday admission plus €3.00 for the guided tour. Admission is free for children up to the age of 18.
Goethe's first love, on the other hand, is the subject of the film "Goethe!", which will be shown in the museum's cinema at 2.30 pm. The story of the young Goethe, unhappily in love, was made into a film in 2010 starring Moritz Bleibtreu, Alexander Fehling and Miriam Stein. The film, which was successful at the time, is about Goethe's law studies, which he neglects and falls in love with instead. However, the young lady was already engaged, which leads to a love triangle that inspires Goethe to write his world-famous breakthrough work "The Sorrows of Young Werther".
Price for the film screening: Children: €4.00 (age 6+), adults €5.00 per person.
Both events offer activities for children aged 6 and over. There is a refreshment break between the two events. Drinks such as coffee, cappuccino, juices and water are available. Guests can bring their own food to eat in the museum garden. Registration at besuchercenter@porzellanikon.org or phone: +49 9287 918000. Address: Porzellanikon Hohenberg, Schirndinger Straße 48, 95691 Hohenberg a.d. Eger.
Film poster "Goethe!"
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