Veronica Ferres

as Christiane Vulpius

Herbert Knaup

as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sibylle Canonica

as Charlotte von Stein

Christoph Waltz

as Herzog Carl August

Franziska Herold

as Charlotte Lengefeld-Schiller

Christian Hockenbrink

as Christian August Vulpius

August Diehl

as Fritz von Stein

Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge

as Christoph Martin Wieland

Rüdiger Vogler

as Hans-Heinrich Meyer

Maria Happel

as Tante Juliane

Fritzi Haberlandt

as Ernestine

Jörg Schüttauf

as Paul Goetze / Diener Geist / neuer Diener / Seidel

Ulrich Anschütz

as Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer

Julia Kravitz

as Bettina Brentano

Baki Davrak

as August Goethe, erwachsen

Anatole Taubman

as Marschall Michel Ney

Christian Doermer

as Arzt

Dominique Horwitz

Udo Samel

Katka Kurze

as Dienerin Helene

Nicole Max

Michael Goldberg

Gundula Köster

Jürgen Hartmann

Anette Felber

Klaus Manchen

Karin Oehme