premise: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe became managing director of the theater at Weimar in England.
hypothesis: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . In 1791 , he was made managing director of the theatre at Weimar , and in 1794 he began a friendship with the dramatist , historian , and philosopher Friedrich Schiller , whose plays he premiered until Schiller 's death in 1805 . Weimar ( [ ˈvaɪmaɐ ] ; Vimaria or Vinaria ) is a city in the federal state of Thuringia , Germany .