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  2. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Carlyle, who incidentally translated Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister into English, frequently refers to and parodies Werther's relationship in his 1836 novel Sartor Resartus. [ 19 ] The statistician Karl Pearson 's first book was The New Werther .

  3. Werther's Original - Wikipedia

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    Werther's Original (from the original German: Werther's Echte) is a brand of caramel and butter confectionery owned by the German company August Storck, based in Berlin, Germany. The candy is popular [ citation needed ] in Europe and North America .

  4. Werther - Wikipedia

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    Werther is an opera (drame lyrique) in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , which was based both on fact and on Goethe's own early life.

  5. The Novel of Werther - Wikipedia

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    The Novel of Werther (French: Le Roman de Werther) is a 1938 French historical drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay and Jean Galland. It is based on the 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. [1] The film was made by Nero Film, a company run by German exiles who had left following the ...

  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wikipedia

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    The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were Götz von Berlichingen (1773), a tragedy that was the first work to bring him recognition, and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) (1774), which gained him enormous fame as a writer in the Sturm und Drang period which marked ...

  7. Copycat suicide - Wikipedia

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    Werther and Lotte, from The Sorrows of Young Werther. A copycat suicide is defined as an emulation of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media. The publicized suicide serves as a trigger, in the absence of ...

  8. August Storck - Wikipedia

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    From 1962 onwards, the company developed many of its most important brands to this day within two decades with nimm2 (1962), Merci (1965), Campino (1966), Werther's Original (1969, sold in Germany until 1998 under the name Werthers Echte) and Toffifee (1973).

  9. Werther (1986 film) - Wikipedia

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    Werther is a 1986 Spanish drama film directed and co-written by Pilar Miró and starring Eusebio Poncela. It is a modern adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. The film was entered into the main competition at the 43rd edition of the Venice Film Festival. [1]