Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832; Hagmann, Johann August 1901-1958 (Basel Amerbach, 1949)
'Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit' is an autobiography by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that comprises the time from the poet's childhood to the days in 1775, when he was about to leave for Weimar.
The book is divided into four parts, the first three of which were written and published between 1811–14, while the fourth was written mainly in 1830–31 and published in 1833. Each part contains five books. The whole covers the first 26 years of its author's life. Goethe held that "the most important period of an individual is that of his development".
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); 19th Century (1801-1900); Writer; Biography; Novel; Poet; Play (theater); Germany