Paul Crask

Dating as far back as the early 1400s, Auerbach’s Keller is one of Leipzig’s oldest and most famous restaurants. Frequented by the student Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the mid 18th century, much of its fame and notoriety is due to the writer’s love of the place and its inclusion in his celebrated play, Faust. He is said to have been inspired by the legend of the alchemist, Dr Johann Georg Faust, who once rode atop a wine barrel from the cellar of Auerbach’s Keller to the street – a feat, it is said, he could only have accomplished with the help of the devil himself. (more…)

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