General introductory articles and websites on the Faust theme

• Thorough entry on "The Faust Theme" in the online Dictionary of the History of Ideas: http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv3-30
• Wikipedia article "Faust" (English)
• Wikipedia-Artikel "Johann Faust" (Deutsch)
• Short entry on "Faust" (from the Columbia Encyclopedia) and bibliographic search results at Questia (English)
• "Notizen zum Faust": Kommentierte Chronologie des Faust-Themas von Torsten Nieland: http://www.heim2.tu-clausthal.de/~kermit/faust.shtml (Deutsch)
• "The Faust Legend". Short article by Lloyd Hawkins on the Mystical World Wide Web. (English)
• Ingrid H. Schafer, "Pacts with the Devil: Faust and Precursors", 1996. A longer scholarly article. (English)
• A "walk" through the Faust room in the Goethe-Museum in Düsseldorf; the room exhibits publications and art related to the Faust tradition; this virtual walk consists mostly of titles and descriptions (in German) of the works exhibited, but contains a number of images as well. (Deutsch)
• Übersicht in Stichworten: Die Faust-Tradition: http://www.ikg.rt.bw.schule.de/virkla/names/schuels/deutsch2/tradition/index.htm (Deutsch)

Link Lists on the Faust theme

• Links at "Education World" to miscellaneous Faust sites

• Website for the production of Goethe's Faust by the anthroposophic Odysseetheater, with many links to Faust texts and resources in German

• Hamburger Bildungsserver: Gute Linkliste zu Goethes Faust I und Faust II, mit Schwerpunkt auf Online-Textausgaben und (meist deutschsprachigen) Unterrichtsmaterialien: http://www.hamburger-bildungsserver.de/welcome.phtml?unten=/faecher/deutsch/autoren/goethe/faust.html
  Berücksichtigt auch andere Versionen des Faust-Themas und bietet Links zu einigen Hintergrundinformationen. (Deutsch)

Links related to the historical Faust

• The Faust museum and archive in Knittlingen, Germany.

Links related to early Faust legends and to the Volksbuch Historia von Johann D. Fausten/Dem weitbeschreyten Zauberer und Schwartzkünstler (...). 1587

• Faust Legends translated from German to English by D. L. Ashliman.
• The digital text of the 1580 manuscript for the Volksbuch in the Bibliotheca Augustana
• Versions of the Wolfenbüttel manuscript of the Volksbuch in the original German and lightly modernized German, and a Nacherzählung of the Volksbuch by Gustav Schwab: http://www.odysseetheater.com/faust/historia/faust_historia_titel.htm
• The digital text of the 1592 English translation of the Volksbuch.
• Information and links regarding the Faust legend and Volksbuch: http://lettersfromthedustbowl.com/faustus.html

Christopher Marlowe, The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faust

• Hypertext edition of the two extant versions of Marlowe's play.

The Faust Story as Puppet Play

• Faust and Mephistopheles as rod puppets in the Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Production by the Marionettentheater Bille, Germany
• Production by the Steinauer Marionettentheater "Die Holzköppe", Germany

Goethe's Faust

• Urfaust
• The digital German text of the Urfaust in the Bibliotheca Augustana

• Faust. Ein Fragment
• The digital text of the 1790 text in the Bibliotheca Augustana

• Faust I
• The digital German text of Faust I in the Projekt Gutenberg
• Project Gutenberg English e-text of Faust I: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/faust10.txt
• English translation of Faust I and the first two acts of Faust II by G. M. Priest
• Wikipedia-Artikel über Faust 1 (Deutsch): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust._Eine_Trag%C3%B6die
• Paul Brians, "Study Guide for Goethe's Faust"

• Faust II
  • The digital German text of Faust II in the Projekt Gutenberg
  • Verse translation and scene-by-scene synopsis/critical study of Faust I and Faust II by A. S. Kline (as free downloadable files in PDF, Microsoft Word, and HTML formats): http://www.tonykline.co.uk/klineastherestlessspirit.htm
  • Further links (commented in German) to German editions and English translations of both parts of Faust available online: http://www.birdigee.de/faust/textaus.htm
  • Wikipedia-Artikel über Faust II (Deutsch): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust._Der_Trag%C3%B6die_zweiter_Teil

• Online articles on both parts of Goethe's Faust

• Wikipedia article on "Goethe's Faust." (English): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust
• Links to various articles by Peter Matussek on his publication list, including "Faust I." Handbuchartikel. Goethe-Handbuch, Band 2: Dramen, hg. von Theo Buck; Stuttgart 1996, S. 352-390.
• Introduction to and plot summaries of Goethe's Faust by Xlibris (in German)
• Michael Bryson, "Transcendence as dunkler Drang: Striving Towards the Union of Masculine with Feminine in Goethe's Faust"
• Adam McLean, "The Alchemical Drama of Goethe’s Faust."

 

Charles Gounod

• Synopsis, information, and images of Gounod's opera Faust: http://www.charles-gounod.com/vi/oeuvres/operas/faust.htm

Murnau's silent film Faust - eine deutsche Volkssage

• Review entry on Faust in "Web of Murnau"

• Biography of Gründgens in German on the website of the Deutsches Historisches Museum
• Biography in German with links to a filmography and bibliography on the website of the Deutsches Filminstitut