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Mar 4, 2024 · Theodor Fontane (born December 30, 1819, Neuruppin, Brandenburg [Germany]—died September 20, 1898, Berlin) was a writer who is considered the first master of modern realistic fiction in Germany. He began his literary career in 1848 as a journalist, serving for several years in England as correspondent for two Prussian newspapers.
Irretrievable ( German: Unwiederbringlich, 1892, also known as Beyond Recall and No Way Back ) is one of realist Theodor Fontane 's mature German novels. As with some other of Fontane's novels (including Effi Briest), its heroine is believed to be based roughly on a real person whose demise Fontane heard about, and it deals delicately with ...
Theodor Fontane (December 30, 1819 – September 20, 1898) was a nineteenth century German novelist and poet. He was the first German realist writer of significance. Realism eschewed some of the excesses of Romanticism , focusing less on the heroic individual, instead preferring to depict social reality, especially the social problems that face ...
May 21, 2018 · FONTANE, THEODOR (1819–1898), German novelist. Theodor Fontane was born in Neuruppin (just northwest of Berlin) on 30 December 1819, and he died in Berlin on 20 September 1898. Best known for his novels Frau Jenny Treibel and Effi Briest, Fontane is considered by many as the greatest German novelist of the nineteenth century, even as the ...
Fontane begins his pharmacy apprenticeship in Berlin and works as a pharmacist in Burg, Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin. 1835, his first meeting with Emilie Rouanet-Kummer, his later wife. First poems. First attempts at prose. First translations from English: poems, ballads, Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Theodor Fontane, novelist, critic, poet, and travel writer, was one of the most celebrated nineteenth-century German men of letters. He was born into a French Huguenot family in the Prussian town of Neuruppin, where his father owned a small pharmacy.
Mar 5, 2024 · The Theodor Fontane Archive (established 1935) at the University of Potsdam is a literary archive, a research institute and a cultural organization dedicated to Theodor Fontane, his time and his contemporaries.
