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Dec 30, 1819 Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany Died on 20 Sep 1898 (aged 78)
German novelist and poet
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About Theodor Fontane
- Theodor Fontane (German: ['t?e?odo?? f?n'ta?n?]; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author.
- He only pulished the first of his novels, for which he is best-known today, at age 58 after a career as a journalist.
- Fontanes novels are known for their complex, often skeptical view on the society in the German empire, he shows different social and political parts of society meeting and sometimes clashing.
- Other trademarks of Fontane's work are their strongly drawn female characters (like Effi Briest and Frau Jenny Treibel), tender irony and vivid conversations between characters.
