Siedziba Olimpijczyka : dom Goethego w Weimarze jako rezydencja idealna

Goethe was nicknamed the Olympian still during his lifetime as the greatest German poet who received a ‘divine’ cult. The cult was fostered by the attitude of Goethe himself and his care about his image. One of the most important elements of this autocracy was the meticulous arrangement of the poet’s residence at Frauenplan, Weimar. The house, which in its unchanged form is one of the most popular German museums, is a result of the poet’s conscious creation of an ideal residence. The article is an attempt at a semiotic analysis of the building and its interior exposed to the visitors. The subject of the analysis are the elements connoting the ideas of perfection, completeness, order, attitude to nature, ‘Olympian calm’, inaccessibility, etc. - that can be deciphered from the location of the building in urban space, interior design, connection with the garden, the collections gathered in particular rooms, places of work and rest. Goethe’s ideal house is a record of his ideal biography, an achievable equivalent of Faust’s unachievable goals.