Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg #1-5

by Theodor Fontane

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg ist ein unver�nderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1865. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ern�hrung, Medizin und weiteren Genres. Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur. Viele Werke historischer Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler sind heute nur noch als Antiquit�ten erh�ltlich. Hansebooks verlegt diese B�cher neu und tr�gt damit zum Erhalt selten gewordener Literatur und historischem Wissen auch f�r die Zukunft bei.

Genres: German Literature, Travel, Classics

Pocket Book

First published January 1, 1889

About the author

Theodor 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.

Reviews

[Ryan Ricks · Rating 3 out of 5]

So this is like part travel guide and part history with a few ghost stories in between. Some of it was easier to understand than other parts.

[Elke Woll · Rating 3 out of 5]

As I just visited the area I concentrated on the places I've seen. I skipped the parts describing architecture and "stately homes", found the historical parts riveting,though.
As a historic read, it's interesting, but obviously dated.