Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg is a five-volume travelogue by the German writer Theodor Fontane, originally published in 1862–1889. It is his longest work and forms a bridge between his early
First edition (1889) of Fünf Schlösser, the final volume of Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg
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The Kreuzzeitung was a national daily newspaper published between 1848 and 1939 in the Kingdom of Prussia and then during the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and into the first part of Nazi Germany
Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg
…of being overly sycophantic towards the Prussian nobility, in particular because of his conservative politics and employment with the conservative Kreuzzeitung, where he published many of the first sections in advance. Fontane strongly denied currying favour, stating that he was writing "out of pure love of…
Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach (here around 1845) is considered to be the founding father of the Kreuzzeitung.
Friedrich Julius Stahl (here around 1840) had direct access to the king and wrote regularly for the Kreuzzeitung,
Otto von Bismarck (here in 1886) went from friend to foe of the Kreuzzeitung.
One of the best-known Jewish journalists of the time was Julius Rodenberg (shown here around 1875), who wrote for the Kreuzzeitung from 1859 to 1896.