Theodor Fontane
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Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet. He has been called “the greatest German realist novelist” and “clearly the greatest German novelist before Thomas Mann.” He published the first of his n
Fontane at age 23, drawing by Georg Friedrich Kersting
Theodor Fontane (c. 1860)
Graves of Theodor and Emilie Fontane in the Französische Friedhof, Liesenstraße, Berlin
"Modern Book Printing" from the Walk of Ideas in Berlin, Germany – built during 2006 to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg's invention, c. 1445, of movable printing type. With Fontane's name among other famous German writers.
The Stechlin
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The Stechlin is a novel by Theodor Fontane written between 1895 and 1897, and first published in the literary journal Über Land und Meer. It was published in book form in 1898. It is Fontane's second
Theodor Fontane
…yielded insights into the lives of the nobility and middle-class citizens. His achievement in this regard was later described as poetic realism. In Der Stechlin (written 1895–97), his last completed novel, Fontane adapted the realistic methods and social criticism of contemporary French fiction to the conditions…
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