Author: Theodor Fontane

Theodor Fontane was born on December 30, 1819, in Neuruppin, Brandenburg. After a four-year apprenticeship, he worked as an assistant pharmacist in various cities and obtained his license as a first-class pharmacist in 1847. In 1849, he left the profession, established himself as a journalist and freelance writer, and married Emilie Rouanet-Kummer in 1850. From 1855 to early 1858, he stayed in London, among other roles as a press agent for the Prussian envoy. Between 1862 and 1882, he published "Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg." In addition to his extensive work as a war correspondent and travel writer, Fontane was a theater critic for the Vossische Zeitung for two decades. At the age of 60, he made his debut as a novelist. Following his first novel "Vor dem Sturm" (1878), he published a series of well-known novels and stories, as well as two memoirs, "Meine Kinderjahre" and "Von Zwanzig bis Dreissig." Fontane passed away on September 20, 1898, in Berlin.