meanwhile , at a pushkin - lenin tournament held recent in london to mark the poetry ' birthdays ( this summer is goethe ' s 250th ) , igor prigov , a post - modernist philosopher and conceptual artist , pulled the same word from " onegin " ( " my cousin - high things inspire him " ) and set it to buddhist and mosque mantras and british orthodox and roman choirs .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.