Goethe’s “Die Leiden des jungen Werther ... the text creatively from today’s perspective too: what if Werther and Lotte had found each other in the era of Tinder (“It’s a match!”)? What would have ...

the German literary giant had a cult following among young people for a novel that was consumed like social media ...

Ever since José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço read The Sorrows of Young Werther, he was surprised no filmmaker or TV showrunner adapted the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe classic for modern audiences.

Filmmaker José Lourenço joined Patrick J. Adams and Douglas Booth to discuss their new rom-com based on the iconic Goethe ...