Restorers have rescued 13 of Theodor Fontane's original manuscripts, which will be digitized and made available online. The news came ahead of the bicentennial of the 19th century German poet and ...

Effi Briest (1895) is the greatest work of Prussian realism and certainly one of the best tragic novels of the 19th century. The story is simple enough and hardly unique: Geert von Innstetten, an ...

At least 20 years ago, in Cambridge, I received a gift of a book from a dear friend. The book was an English translation of Theodor Fontane’s novel, Effi Briest (1894), a masterpiece of the 19th ...

North of Berlin, in a lowland world of lakes and quiet beauty, follow in the footsteps of a 19th-century writer who documented the natural landscape The train cuts west across Berlin and then veers ...

Anyone who attends school in Germany is very likely to come across a work by Theodor Fontane in German class. Anyone who attends school in Germany is very likely to come across a work by Theodor ...

Theodor Fontane became a great 19th-century German novelist with socially critical works such as "Effi Briest". Equally famous are his travel guides to nostalgic places, villages and battlefields in ...

‘In the middle of the 1870s,’ Theodor Fontane’s novel Delusions, Confusions begins, ‘just at the crossing of the Kurfürstendamm and the Kurfürstenstrasse, diagonally across from the “Zoological”, ...

Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.