is No question, the man in the years – to be precise: There are soon 200. The worship will do no harm, if at the end of March, the Fontane-year begins in Berlin and Brandenburg, the old Theodor up and down the country, up and down the country celebrated. But what experienced at the time, thought, and written, in today’s time is still somehow relevant? Or the experiences of the people of the 21st century. Century, the access to Theodor Fontane is not necessarily so fundamentally from those of the ancients, at least, no easier?
The doubt swings Yes, even at my time of Theodor Fontane with enjoyed. Alfred Kerr, at that time, ascending large columnist, has experienced as a young man, the late Fontane, praised the Ancient as modern in Thinking, however, pending “a touch of the good old time about him”. Kerr wrote the 1895.
The yearning to slow down
taking a closer look, there are amazing Parallels to the present day. Fontane has proved himself to be as adaptable and enterprising author, the needs of his readers to use sent knew, the experience today is a rebirth. Slowing down or longing for the “good old days” are not exclusive phenomena of today.
Germany was at that time in the Phase of high industrialization, the world was changing at a pace that was in the story, until then, unprecedented. The effects are not very different today in all areas of life feeding digitisation comparable.
in 1895 was created the first x-ray image, Berlin’s first U-Bahn was built. The first short films were presented to the audience, all the continents were connected via the Telegraph cable, the first World Wide Web in order made. And the first flyer had risen into the air, and in the following year a fatal crash.
in the Evening, Berlin was locked
What is the Andes a difference to Fontane’s birth year, 1819, when just two dozen stagecoach lines Berlin with the world, the Brandenburg gate, like all the other Berlin gates was in the evening, locked with bars. At night, a lantern watchman went up with the oil can through the stinking streets, there was neither a sewage system nor paved sidewalks.
His career Theodor Fontane began as a pharmacist, then a Journalist instead. For the longest time, he was a freelancer, as an employee of an editor, he worked for only ten years, when the reactionary “cross newspaper”, an activity which he spoke in his autobiographical writings like small. He wrote to make money, the concern that it might not be enough, accompanied him.
Literature, he succeeded for the first time in the magazine “The railway”. Behind this title, not a technology magazine for rail Nerds, but a literary magazine. The railway was as a progress driver par excellence, a Synonym for the future, in the 21st century. Century, perhaps comparable to the Internet.
The Tempo triples
The first true Railways reached about three times of mail-coach pace, what today does not like to be much, at that time a quantum leap forward. Heinrich Heine wrote on the occasion of the opening of the railway line Paris-Rouen in 1843: “The elementary concepts of time and space have become swaying.” The destruction of the space between the two objectives was a common Topos in the discussion of Intellectuals in Europe at that time. Theses, the everyday life for air travelers today experience, you get between takeoff and landing from the space in between, nothing more.
in 1862, appeared “The County of Ruppin,” the first volume of Fontane’s wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg. Four more were to follow in the next 20 years. From his time as a London correspondent for four years he had lived on the river Thames, were two books. But with the walks he began to earn a lot of money. And his later novels may have brought him literary recognition, the General public, he has remained to this day the walkers.
The Wanderer wanders is not
Why was that so? In the case of his contemporaries he had met, quite obviously, a nerve. This was no coincidence, but a plan full Consideration. The Potsdam cultural historian Iwan-Michelangelo D’aprile, who in due time submitted to the Fontane year, the most exciting biography under the title of “Fontane – A century in motion” is called the migration project is a kind of Joint Venture between Fontane and the Berlin-based publisher Wilhelm Ludwig Hertz.
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‘d apply As Fontane itself, shows his sense of modern Marketing: “the castle, Park and landscape description, Historical, Anecdotical, family stuff, and haunted history. You cannot ask for more at the end.“ He worked thoroughly and efficiently, erwanderte but by no means all. The “Wanderer” seems to be rarely more than five km run. He preferred the railway, Coach and steamer. Where he went, he left to other research.
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