The translation isn’t perfect, I know that. It’s kinda hard to translate old German into English, but I did my best 
Goethe! is on a mission to rehumanize the godly “prince of poets” Goethe (“with OE”), and largely succeeds. The movie picks out the period when young Johann is still trying to appease his dad by taking on a day job as assistant to the district attorney (or the mid-18.th- century equivalent to that job description) of boondocksville Wetzlar, after having faltered his legal studies in the much more mundane Strassburg. In other words, immediately before young John’s groundbreaking success of “The Sufferings Of Young Werther”. Goethe befriends social drop-out Jerusalem, struggles with his staunch superior Kestner, and eventually falls in love with charming ingénue Charlotte Buff, only to lose her to the better-established Kestner. Around the same time, Jerusalem commits suicide after an unhappy love affair with a married woman. Goethe processes his troublesome experiences by writing his first pageturner. (imdb)