Theodor Fontane
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- Fontane, Theodor
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1819-12-30
- Place of birth
- Neuruppin
- Date of death
- 1898-09-20
- Place of death
- Berlin
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Theodor Fontane (German pronunciation: [ˈtʰeːodoɐ̯ fɔnˈtaːnə] ; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist. Many of his novels delve into topics that were more or less taboo for discussion in the polite society of Fontane's day, including marital infidelity, class differences, urban vs. rural differences, abandonment of children, and suicide. His novels sold well during his lifetime and several have been adapted for film or audio works.
Fontane's novels are known for their complex, often sceptical view of society in the German empire. He shows different social and political parts of society meeting and sometimes clashing, his main characters range from lower-middle class to Prussian nobility. Fontane is known as a writer of realism, not only because he was conscientious about the factual accuracy of details in fictional scenes, but also because he depicted his characters in terms of what they said or did and refrained from overtly imputing motives to them. Other trademarks of Fontane's work are their strongly drawn female characters (such as Effi Briest and Frau Jenny Treibel), tender irony and vivid conversations between characters.
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- Theodor Fontane wrote Der Stechlin
- Theodor Fontane is the subject of Theodor Fontane: Leben und Werk
- Theodor Fontane is the subject of Der alte Fontane
- Theodor Fontane wrote Miss Jane
- Theodor Fontane wrote Long Acre 27
- Theodor Fontane wrote Hastingsfeld
- Theodor Fontane wrote John Maynard
- Theodor Fontane wrote Zu Haus
- Theodor Fontane wrote Flickwerk
- Theodor Fontane wrote Out of Town
- Theodor Fontane wrote blurb for Meistererzählungen
- Theodor Fontane wrote Lady Hamilton
- Theodor Fontane wrote Grete Minde
- Theodor Fontane is the subject of Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich
- Theodor Fontane is the subject of Mit Fontane durch das heutige London
- Theodor Fontane wrote Effi Briest
- Theodor Fontane wrote Gorm Grymme
- Theodor Fontane is the subject of Nachwort [Ein Sommer in London]
- Theodor Fontane is the subject of Über Fontane
- Theodor Fontane wrote Stine
- Theodor Fontane wrote Richmond
- Theodor Fontane wrote Die Botenfrau
- Theodor Fontane is the subject of Fontane: "Irrungen, Wirrungen"
- Theodor Fontane wrote Blackwall
- Theodor Fontane wrote Smithfield
- Theodor Fontane wrote Der Tower
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- 2025-04-22