Faust Part 2, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1832 is a continuation of Faust Part 1. The work can be understood as a reminder system, which the Central European culture with its antique roots as well as all the style of the German language represents. In contrast to Faust Part 1, the vordergruendig no longer stands in the soul, and the feeling lives of individual humans are absorbed in social phenomena in the center, such as history and politics.

Emergence

Goethe worked with interruptions over 6 decades on the first part, which he had already become acquainted with in his childhood. The second part formed the principal occupation of his last years and appeared only posthumously in 1832.

Contents

The piece consists of five documents, in which episodes relatively locked in place for themselves represent something new in each case.

• I. The first introduces the use of paper money in the yard of the German emperor Charles V with Mephistopheles's assistance, and Mephistopholes saves thereby the imperial finances. To the illusionary Mummenschanz Faust goes to the Urbildern (pre-development) of the life into the "realm of the mothers" before it before the yard the Phantome of Helena and Paris as Urbilder of human beauty swears to.

• II. The famulus Wagner creates an artificial person of flax, the Homunculus, that leads the Protagonists to the "Classical Walpurgisnacht", in which the most diverse mythological natures and Gods of Greek antiquity arise.

• III. The third act describes Faust's relationship with Helena, with whom he has a son, Euphorion, who which falls at the end of the act to death, whereupon Helena also disappears.

• IV. In the fourth act Faust and Mephistopheles return to the emperor, who is in the meantime in the war with the Gegenkaiser. With the help of ordered ranks of Daemons they achieve the victory.

• V. The clenched fist of the act, accosts Mephistopholes, who wants him to make the bottom of the sea arable by drainage. Meanwhile, old and blind, he sustains the existence of noisy spades, which dig his grave, for its workers. Finally Faust fulfills himself in his fate, and recognizes it nevertheless the instant, in which he could say: "Verweile nevertheless, you are in such a way schoen!" When he expresses this, he breaks down dead; his soul is saved by good powers.

Effect

Faust worked uncommonly in inspiring literature, music and illustration.

Productions

• 2003 of Ingmar Thilo; with Antonios Safralis (fist), Raphaela Zick (Mephisto), Ulrike DOS valley (Helena), max of Friedmann (Lynceus) among other things.

Literature

Gero of Wilpert: Goethe encyclopedia, Stuttgart, Kroener 1998, ISBN 3-520-40701-9

Web links

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Similarities of the figured fist with Johann of the Wolfgang von Goethe are obvious and in the text are designated. The novel received strong zuspruch also in the context of the Hippie movement.