Goethe's one-night stand and other rap classics

"He wrote [Found] in order to persuade her."
In an article entitled Goethe's in Da House, talk to German rapper Doppel U, keen to peddle Goethe and Schiller to the kids as "the Slim Shadys of their time."

Doppel U is actually Christian Weirich, a 23-year-old German hip hop artist who's worked with rap luminaries from the Wu Tang Clan's RZA to German rapper Spax.

He first realized Goethe and Schiller deserved some respect when he was approached about adapting the classics to mark Schiller Year in 2004.
Initially skeptical, he was soon convinced that the German poet knew at least as much about poverty and prejudice as 50 Cent.
"Schiller was a killer," he's been known to say.

Since then, he's released a CD of Schiller's verse set to rap rhythms, called "Zeitgeist," and initiated an educational project aimed at getting school kids into the classics with the help of hip hop.
He's now the official face of the project "Young Writers and Thinkers" and regularly gives workshops in schools. He's even developed a teaching aid in the form of an interactive audio CD.