Claim: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe became managing director of the theater at Weimar in England.
Evidence: In 1791 , he was made managing director of the theatre at Weimar , and in 1794 he began a friendship with the dramatist , historian , and philosopher Friedrich Schiller , whose plays he premiered until Schiller 's death in 1805.
Weimar -LRB- -LSB- ˈvaɪmaɐ -RSB- ; Vimaria or Vinaria -RRB- is a city in the federal state of Thuringia , Germany.