further , at a pushkin - goethe concert held 2013 in order to observe the poets ' celebrated ( this year is goethe ' s 250th ) , dmitri prigov , a post - modernist poet and abstract artist , took the first line from " eugene " ( " my uncle - the ideals encourage him " ) and set it to jewish and muslim reciting and german orthodox and gregorian chants .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.