Theodor Fontane

出生 : 1819-12-30, Neuruppin

死亡 : 1898-09-20

略歴

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

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Unterm Birnbaum
Novel
After the death of their child, the Hradschek couple consoled themselves with gambling and shopping orgies. After the creditor increases the pressure on them, Ursel and Abel decide to kill him.
Effi Briest
Novel
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum life, far from home, for Effi. Innstetten devotes himself entirely to his political career, and the sleepy small town of Kessin has very little to offer in terms of variety. But then, one day, Innstetten's old regimental comrade, Major Crampas – a charming womanizer – arrives on the scene.
Playing with Fire
Novel
Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg
Story
Franziska
Novel
Die Poggenpuhls
Novel
Mathilde Möhring
Novel
Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel.
Frau Jenny Treibel
Novel
Melanie van der Straaten
Novel
Stine
Novel
Gefangen in Frankreich: Theodor Fontane im Krieg 1870/71
Story
Schach von Wuthenow
Novel
Grete Minde
Novel
Grete Minde, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane, tells the story of a girl trapped in the turbulent religious and social prejudices of 17th-century Sweden.
Frau Jenny Treibel
Novel
Effi Briest
Novel
A German-made film based on one of the most famous German novels by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest is a socially ambitious, 17-year-old German girl who accepts a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a much older diplomat. Unfortunately, neither the Baron's family nor anyone in the secluded town she now calls home accept Effi as an equal. Starved for companionship, Effi begins an innocent friendship with a well-known womanizer that may jeopardize her position as the Baron's wife.
Unterm Birnbaum
Novel
Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, is by no means free of blame. She is a "newcomer" to the area and even after eleven years in the area, still a "stranger". A Cracow company announces that a money-collector is on his way to the innkeeper. Mr. Szulski arrives and the debts are settled - with money supposedly stemming from an inheritance. The next day, Szulski departs but according to the maid and the stable-boy, behaves in a very strange manner. Soon afterwards, his carriage is discovered in the Oder River, but there is no trace of the drowned man. Hradscheck's neighbor starts casting suspicion on the innkeeper. The Counselor of Justice, who heads the investigations has the spot under the pear tree dug out. A dead body is exhumed...
Frau Jenny Treibel
Novel
Effi Briest
Novel
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house i that she believes has a ghost.
Unwiederbringlich
Novel
Mathilde Möhring
Novel
Geschichte des Rittmeisters Schach von Wuthenow
Novel
Irrungen - Wirrungen
Novel
Unterm Birnbaum
Novel
Rosen im Herbst
Novel
Corinna Schmidt
Novel
Berlin in 1878: Corinna Schmidt, who was brought up in a petit-bourgeois, academic family, is romantically interested in Leopold Treibel, the son of the lordly councillor of commerce Jenny Treibel – although Corinna is also deeply in love with her cousin Marcel. Leopold is also falling for cute Corinna, and Jenny Treibel tries to prevent their friendship by all means, but changes her opinion when their secret engagement becomes public. To avoid a scandal, she urges them to marry quickly. But Corinna soon withdraws from this complicated situation and again turns to her cousin, who is banished from the country for his social democratic beliefs.
Mein Herz gehört Dir
Novel
Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel Mathilde Möhring.
Das alte Lied
Novel
Der stumme Gast
Novel
Whodunit centered around a hostel.
Der Schritt vom Wege
Novel
Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known.
Ball im Metropol
Novel
At a ball at the Metropol, the married Margit gives a harmless kiss to a one-time friend from her childhood and cousin, Eberhard. The two notice, however, that Margit's ill and jealous husband observed them from a distance, because he recognized the coat she recently purchased. Quickly, Margit asks the salesgirl Trude to put on her coat and meet Eberhard in the lobby. Things take a decidedly different turn, however, when Trude and Eberhard fall madly in love with each other.
Wildes Blut
Novel