Faust Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Faust is the protagonist of a popular German tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works. It concerns the fate of a learned gentleman, Faust, who summons the Devil, who in the tale is usually called Mephistopheles, and offers to sell him his soul if the Devil will serve him for a given period of time. This legend has also inspired the western culture's literary classic Faust by giant German writer and humanist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Table of contents

1 Historical Origins 2 Works which retell or allude to the Faust tale 2.1 Drama 2.2 Prose Fiction 2.3 Nonfiction 2.4 Poetry 2.5 Opera 2.6 Music 2.7 Movies 2.8 Musicals 2.9 Anime and Manga 3 See Also 4 External links

Historical Origins

The tale has some basis in history. Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approx. 1480 - 1540) was a German alchemist who was born in the village of Knittlingen, Württemberg.

A German chapbook about his sins was translated into English in 1587, where it came to the attention of Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, in turn, was studied by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and as such the fictional Faust came to overshadow the historical Faust, about whom little is known.

Works which retell or allude to the Faust tale

Drama

• Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
• Dorothy L. Sayers's The Devil to Pay
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 2
• Michel Carre's Faust et Marguerite

Prose Fiction

• Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
• Tom Holt's Faust Among Equals
• Alfred Jarry's Faustroll
• Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
• Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer
• Terry Pratchett's Faust Eric
• Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust
• Ivan Turgenev's Faust
• Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
• Zoran Živković's Time-gifts
• Valery Bryusov's The Fiery Angel, the tavern scene from Goethe's Faust Part 1 is spliced into the rest of Bryusov's storyline.

Nonfiction

• Bertrand Russell's essay "A Free Man's Worship"

Poetry

• Heinrich Heine's Der Doktor Faust

Opera

• Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868)
• Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust (1916-25)
• Charles Gounod's Faust (1859)
• Sergei Prokofiev's opera based on Bryusov's The Fiery Angel

Music

• Hector Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (1845-46) (sometimes performed in staged opera versions)
• Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 75 no 3 (1809) Song - Aus Goethess Faust: "Es war einmal ein König"
• Charles Gounod's Ballet music from his opera Faust (1859). The ballet occurs as an interlude in the Fourth Act during the Walpurgis Night scene familiar from Goethe's Faust Part 1. The ballet or ballet music is often performed independent of the opera.
• Franz Liszt's A Faust Symphony (1854-57)
• Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (1906-1907)
• Modest Mussorgsky: "Mephistopheles' song of the flea", is just that: a version of the song that Mephistopheles sings in the tavern scene of Goethe's Faust Part 1.
• Alfred Schnittke's cantata Faust (1982-83)
• Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)
• Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853)
• Richard Wagner's Faust overture (1840, originally intended as the first movement of a Faust symphony)
• Art Zoyd's song Faust

Movies

• F. W. Murnau's Faust (1926)
• The Band Wagon
• Peter Cook and Dudley Moores Bedazzled (1967), remade in 2000.
• Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
• Jan Svankmajer's Faust (film) (1994)
• I Was A Teenage Faust

Musicals

• The Little Shop of Horrors
• Damn Yankees

Anime and Manga

• Shaman King (A character in Shaman King, Faust VIII, is a descendant of Dr. Faust)

See Also

• Walpurgis Night
• The Brocken a.k.a. Blocksberg
• Brocken specter

External links

• Devilish Deeds in Staufen
• Pacts with the Devil: Faust and Precursors
• E-texts:
  • At Projekt Gutenberg-DE:
    • Goethe's Faust, part 1
    • Goethe's Faust, part 2
    • Heine's Der Doktor Faust
  • Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
• Jan Svankmajer's Faust

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Faust is also the name of a German krautrock band. See Faust (band). Faust is also the German word for fist, although the name "Faust" may be related to Italian "Fausto" rather than the German word.

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