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unusual facts about Emilia Galotti


Emilia Galotti

The absolutist prince of Guastalla, Hettore Gonzaga, becomes obsessed with the idea of making Emilia his lover after their first meeting.


Hamid Arzulu

He translated and published into our language the works by German classic writer Heinrich Heine ("Die Harzreise"), Goethe's lyric poetry "West-Eastern Divan", Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's dramas "Nathan the Wise", "Emilia Galotti" and "Minna von Barnhelm", Friedrich Schiller's "Ballads", Bertolt Brecht's drama "Chalk cross" and Stefan Zweig's Novels.

Josephine Wessely

She gained recognition for playing Gretchen in Goethe's Faust, Klärchen in Egmont and Marie Beaumarchais in Clavigo, as well as for her performance as Lessing's Emilia Galotti.


see also

Mary Luckhurst

Luckhurst’s plays include The Woman of Shallott (Cambridge 1990), translations of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Emilia Galotti (London, 1993) and Elisabeth Bouchaud's A Contre-Voix (London, 1994), and Kretschmer's Diary (Prague, 1999).