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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.
Effi Briest (German pronunciation: [ˈɛfi ˈbʁiːst]) is a realist novel by Theodor Fontane.Published in book form in 1895, Effi Briest marks both a watershed and a climax in the poetic realism of literature.
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 topics that, at the time it was written, were close to ...
The primary subject of the novel revolves around two Berlin families. One is the upper-class Treibel family consisting of the Councillor of commerce and his wife, Frau Jenny, as well as their sons Otto and Leopold.
Der Stechlin (German pronunciation: [deːɐ̯ ʃtɛçˈliːn] ⓘ) 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 longest novel, and his last novel published before he died, about a year after its publication.
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Fontane used this text as a base for his poem, which he wrote in summer 1889. [2] The legendary pear-tree on the grave of the von Ribbeck family, near the village church of Ribbeck, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-west of Berlin , did in fact exist at Fontane's time; it was destroyed in a storm in 1911.
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