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Theodor Storm
Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (; 14 September 18174 July 1888), commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German writer. He is considered to be one of the most important figures of German realism. Life Storm was born in the small town of Husum, on the west coast of Schleswig, then a formally independent duchy ruled by the king of Denmark. His parents were the lawyer ''Johann Casimir Storm'' (1790–1874) and ''Lucie Storm'', née Woldsen (1797–1879). Storm attended school in Husum and Lübeck and studied law in Kiel and Berlin. While still a law student in Kiel he published a first volume of verse together with the brothers Tycho and Theodor Mommsen (1843). Storm was involved in the 1848 revolutions and sympathized with the liberal goals of a united Germany under a constitutional monarchy in which every class could participate in the political process. From 1843 until his admission was revoked by Danish authorities in 1852, he worked as a lawyer in his home town of Husum. In 1853 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Potsdam
Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of Berlin, and lies embedded in a hilly morainic landscape dotted with many lakes, around 20 of which are located within Potsdam's city limits. It lies some southwest of Berlin's city centre. The name of the city and of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Potsdam was a residence of the Prussian kings and the German Kaiser until 1918. Its planning embodied ideas of the Age of Enlightenment: through a careful balance of architecture and landscape, Potsdam was intended as "a picturesque, pastoral dream" which would remind its residents of their relationship with nature and reason. The city, which is over 1000 years old, is widely known for its palaces, its lakes, and its overall historical and cultural significance. Landmarks inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Pietsch
Ludwig Pietsch (25 December 1824 – 27 November 1911) was a German painter, art critic and feature writer and a friend of Theodor Fontane."PIETSCH, Ludwig (1824–1911), Painter, illustrator, lithographer, art writer" in ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'' (2006) Life Pietsch attended the Danzig art and vocational school, and in 1841–1843 the Berlin Art Academy; he also studied under Swiss painter in Paris. He worked as an illustrator for various newspapers and journals, including the well-known Leipzig ''Illustrirte Zeitung''. His articles in the ''Vossische Zeitung'' a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the Rhine, the border with France, and forty kilometres (twenty-five miles) north-east of Strasbourg, France. In 2021, the town became part of the transnational UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name "Great Spa Towns of Europe", because of its famous spas and architecture that exemplifies the popularity of spa towns in Europe in the 18th through 20th centuries. Name The springs at Baden-Baden were known to the Romans as ("The Waters") and (" Aurelia-of-the-Waters") after M. Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus. In modern German, ' is a noun meaning "bathing" but Baden, the original name of the town, derives from an earlier plural form of ' ( "bath"). (Modern German uses the plural form '.) As with the English placename "Bath", other Badens are at hot sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Mörike
Eduard Friedrich Mörike (8 September 18044 June 1875) was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used by composers Hugo Wolf and Ignaz Lachner in their symphonic works. Biography Mörike was born in Ludwigsburg. His father was Karl Friedrich Mörike (died 1817), a district medical councilor; his mother was Charlotte Bayer. After the death of his father, in 1817, he went to live with his uncle Eberhard Friedrich Georgii in Stuttgart, who intended his nephew to become a clergyman. Therefore, after one year at the Stuttgart '' Gymnasium illustre'', Mörike joined the Evangelical Seminary Urach, a humanist grammar school, in 1818 and from 1822 to 1826 attended the Tübinger Stift. There, he scored low grades and failed the admission test to Urach Seminary, yet was accepted anyhow. At the Seminary he went on to study the classics, something th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 178826 November 1857) was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism.Cf. J. A. Cuddon: ''The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory'', revised by C. E. Preston. London 1999, p. 770. Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in Germany. Eichendorff first became famous for his 1826 novella ''Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts'' (freely translated: ''Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing'') and his poems. The ''Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing'' is a typical Romantic novella whose main themes are wanderlust and love. The protagonist, the son of a miller, rejects his father's trade and becomes a gardener at a Viennese palace where he subsequently falls in love with the local duke's daughter. As, with his lowly status, she is unattainable for him, he escapes to Italy – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Hebbel
Christian Friedrich Hebbel (18 March 1813 – 13 December 1863) was a German poet and dramatist. Biography Hebbel was born at Wesselburen in Dithmarschen, Holstein, the son of a bricklayer. He was educated at the ''Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums'', a grammar school in Hamburg, Germany. Despite his humble origins, he showed a talent for poetry, resulting in the publication in the ''Hamburg Modezeitung'', of verses which he had sent to Amalie Schoppe (1791–1858), a popular journalist and author of nursery tales. Through her patronage, he was able to go to the University of Hamburg. A year later he went to Heidelberg University to study law, but gave it up and went on to the University of Munich, where he devoted himself to philosophy, history and literature. In 1839, Hebbel left Munich and walked all the way back to Hamburg, where he resumed his friendship with Elise Lensing, whose self-sacrificing assistance had helped him over the darkest days in Munich. In the same year he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquis Submersus (novella)
''Aquis Submersus'' is an 1877 novella by the German writer Theodor Storm. It has also been published as ''Beneath the Flood''. It is set in Northern Germany right after the Thirty Years' War and tells a tragic love story. Publication An English translation by Geoffrey Skelton was published in 1962 as ''Beneath the Flood''. New translations under the original title have been published in 1974 and 2015. Adaptations The novella was the basis for the 1951 film ''Immortal Beloved'', directed by Veit Harlan. It was also the basis for Wolfgang Schleif Wolfgang Schleif (14 May 1912 – 21 August 1984) was a German film director, screenwriter and film editor. Life and career Wolfgang Schleif studied philosophy, psychology and pedagogy at the University of Leipzig. In 1934 he passed the State ...'s 1979 television drama ''Wie Rauch und Staub''. References 1877 German novels German novels adapted into films German-language novels Novellas by Theodor Storm Novels set in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul The Puppeteer
''Paul the Puppeteer'' () is an 1874 novella by the German writer Theodor Storm. It is about a Frisian woodturner who tells the story of how he got his nickname. An English translation by Denis Jackson was published in 2004. The story has been adapted for film multiple times. Film adaptations * 1935 – ''Pole Poppenspäler'', directed by Curt Oertel * 1944/1945 – ''Der Puppenspieler'', directed by Alfred Braun, left unfinished * 1954 – '' Pole Poppenspäler'', directed by Arthur Pohl * 1968 – ''Pole Poppenspäler'', directed by Günther Anders Günther Anders (born Günther Siegmund Stern, 12 July 1902 – 17 December 1992) was a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist. Trained in the phenomenological tradition, he developed a philosophical anthropolo ... * 1988 – ''Pole Poppenspäler'', directed by Guy Kubli References External links ''Pole Poppenspäler''at Projekt Gutenberg-DE {{Authority control 1874 German novels Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Rundschau
''Deutsche Rundschau'' is a literary and political periodical established in 1874 by Julius Rodenberg. It strongly influenced German politics, literature and culture was considered one of the most successful launches of periodicals in Germany. Among its authors were Theodor Fontane ''(Effi Briest)'', Paul Heyse, Theodor Storm ('' The Dykemaster''), Gottfried Keller and Ernst Robert Curtius. Richard Moritz Meyer, a German literature historian, described ''Deutsche Rundschau'' as the printed university. It was circulated with interruptions during the Nazi Germany until 1964. History After Rodenberg's death, Bruno Hake took over as publisher, followed in 1919 by Rudolf Pechel. Until World War II, the ''Deutsche Rundschau'' was the mouthpiece of the Young Conservatives, and later of the conservative opponents of the Nazis. In 1942, Pechel was imprisoned and the periodical banned. Four years later, ''Deutsche Rundschau'' was again published by Pechel. After Pechel's death, the month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rider On The White Horse
''The Rider on the White Horse'' (German: ''Der Schimmelreiter'') is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm. It is his last complete work, first published in 1888, the year of his death. The novella is Storm's best remembered and most widely read work, and considered by many to be his masterpiece. It has been translated into English under titles ''The Dykemaster'', ''The Dikegrave'', and the most literal, ''The Rider on the White Horse'' ("Schimmel" being the German word for a gray or white horse). Characters * Hauke Haien - the main character, based on mathematician and astronomer Hans Momsen * Elke Haien (née Volkerts) - the old dykemaster's daughter and Hauke's wife * Wienke Haien - Hauke and Elke's mentally challenged daughter * Tede Volkerts - Elke's father, and dykemaster prior to Hauke * Ole Peters - the old dykemaster's senior hand and Hauke's rival * The Schoolmaster - a man from the town who tells the story to the narrator a hundred years later Plot summary The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immensee (novella)
''Immensee'' (1849 and 1851) is a novella by German author Theodor Storm. It was the work that made him famous and remains to this day one of his most widely read. History ''Immensee'' was first published in ''Biernatzki’s Volksbuch'' in December 1849 when the author was well known regionally, but with the revised edition 1851, he became famous all over Germany and then the world. By the time of his death in 1888, it saw 33 editions in 17 languages. Storm revised it using some comments from his friend Tyco Mommsen and republished it in 1851 in ''Sommergeschichten und Lieder'' and finally as a single work edition in 1852. The first English translation appeared in 1858 in Henry Colburn’s '' New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal'' with a second version first appearing in the USA in 1863. It was Storm's best selling work and remains to this day one of his most widely read, along with '' The Rider on the White Horse'' and '' Pole Poppenspäler''. On the surface it is a simple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
