Theodor Fontane

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.

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.

Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's 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.

작은 도시의 명망있는 집안의 에피 브리스트는 파티 등을 열며 재미있는 나날을 보낸다. 그녀는 프로이센 주의원인 20세 연상의 인스테텐 남작과 결혼한다. 출세 지향적이고 엄격한 남편과의 결혼 생활에서 외로움을 느끼던 에피 브리스트는 매력있는 크람파스 대령과 짧으나 낭만적인 연애를 한다. 6년뒤 베를린 내각의 장관이 된 남작은 이 사실을 우연히 알게 된다. 인스테텐 남작은 에피 브리스트를 용서하고 싶은 마음이 있음에도 불구하고 사회의 통념상 부인의 불륜을 발견한 남편으로서 해야 할 마땅한 행동을 취하고 만다. 남작은 권총 결투에서 크람파스 대령을 죽이고 아내와 이혼한 후 아이는 자신이 맡는다. 이혼당한 에피 브리스트는 충격을 받은 양친으로부터 거부당하고 고립속에서 괴로움과 수치를 느끼며 파멸해 간다. 죽기 전 그녀는 남편을 용서한다.

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...

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.

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.

Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel Mathilde Möhring.

Whodunit centered around a hostel.

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.

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.