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Die Brück' am Tay
Hardcover
Published February 1, 2020
About the author
Theodor Fontane
1,107 books230 followersTheodor Fontane, novelist, critic, poet, and travel writer, was one of the most celebrated nineteenth-century German men of letters. He was born into a French Huguenot family in the Prussian town of Neuruppin, where his father owned a small pharmacy. His father’s gambling debts forced the family to move repeatedly, and eventually his temperamentally mismatched parents separated.
Though Fontane showed early interest in history and literature - jotting down stories in his school notebooks - he could not afford to attend university; instead he apprenticed as a pharmacist and eventually settled in Berlin. There he joined the influential literary society Tunnel über der Spree, which included among its members Theodor Storm and Gottfried Keller, and turned to writing. In 1850 Fontane’s first published books, two volumes of ballads, appeared; they would prove to be his most successful books during his lifetime. He spent the next four decades working as a critic, journalist, and war correspondent while producing some fifty works of history, travel narrative, and fiction. His early novels, the first of which was published in 1878, when Fontane was nearly sixty, concerned recent historical events.
It was not until the late 1880s that he turned to his great novels of modern society, remarkable for their psychological insight: Trials and Tribulations (1888), Irretrievable (1891), Frau Jenny Treibel (1892), and Effi Briest (1895). During his last years, Fontane returned to writing poetry, and, while recovering from a severe illness, wrote an autobiographical novel that would prove to be a late commercial success. He is buried in the French section of the Friedhof II cemetery in Berlin.
Though Fontane showed early interest in history and literature - jotting down stories in his school notebooks - he could not afford to attend university; instead he apprenticed as a pharmacist and eventually settled in Berlin. There he joined the influential literary society Tunnel über der Spree, which included among its members Theodor Storm and Gottfried Keller, and turned to writing. In 1850 Fontane’s first published books, two volumes of ballads, appeared; they would prove to be his most successful books during his lifetime. He spent the next four decades working as a critic, journalist, and war correspondent while producing some fifty works of history, travel narrative, and fiction. His early novels, the first of which was published in 1878, when Fontane was nearly sixty, concerned recent historical events.
It was not until the late 1880s that he turned to his great novels of modern society, remarkable for their psychological insight: Trials and Tribulations (1888), Irretrievable (1891), Frau Jenny Treibel (1892), and Effi Briest (1895). During his last years, Fontane returned to writing poetry, and, while recovering from a severe illness, wrote an autobiographical novel that would prove to be a late commercial success. He is buried in the French section of the Friedhof II cemetery in Berlin.
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August 13, 2023
Mit der Reihe "Poesie für Kinder" bringt der Kindermann Verlag großformatige Bilderbücher heraus, in denen jeweils ein bekanntes deutsches Gedicht aufwendig illustriert und in Szene gesetzt ist. Einerseits eine wunderbare Idee, um für kleine Leser Lyrik anschaulich und zugänglich zu machen. Anderseits kann man sich auch als Erwachsene sehr an dieser Leseerfahrung erfreuen.
Hier zeigt sich Künstler Tobias Krejtschi anders als bei dem auch von ihm bebilderten Band zu "Nis Randers" eher in einer Art Scherenschnitt-Stil mit sehr klaren, einfachen Linien und Farben, ein bisschen wie als würde man ein altertümliches Informationsplakat betrachten. Mir persönlich gefällt das sehr, sehr gut, und der Band ist für mich eines der Highlights der Reihe.
Hier zeigt sich Künstler Tobias Krejtschi anders als bei dem auch von ihm bebilderten Band zu "Nis Randers" eher in einer Art Scherenschnitt-Stil mit sehr klaren, einfachen Linien und Farben, ein bisschen wie als würde man ein altertümliches Informationsplakat betrachten. Mir persönlich gefällt das sehr, sehr gut, und der Band ist für mich eines der Highlights der Reihe.
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