Ettore Ghibellino

Ettore Ghibellino was born in Waiblingen/Germany in 1969 and grew up in Italy and Germany. He studied in Tübingen, Belfast, Oxford, Speyer, Rome, and Bayreuth. He holds an MA from Tübingen and a Magister Juris from Oxford. Since 2001 he has been living as a freelance author in Weimar. He is editor of the works of Giuseppi Maccari (1840-1867), whom he has discovered. The publication of his Goethe biography in 2003 caused a sensation in some circles. Ghibellino is Chairman of the Anna Amalia & Goethe Society and founder of the Anna Amalia & Goethe Academy in Weimar. Alongside his striving to promote a fresh view of Weimar Classicism, he is writing a European Bildungsroman and is engaged in film projects.