With a ceremony was opened in the presence of the Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Brandenburg’s Minister-President Dietmar Woidke in Neuruppin Fontane year. Fontane was an exception among the writers of the 19th century. Century have been, said Steinmeier in his speech at the opening event in the culture of the Church. “His novels reflect less of the old Prussia rather than the conflict of Tradition and Modernity, and perhaps that is why so unchanged currently,” said Steinmeier.
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Theodor Fontane and his time Modern, not märkisch
Tobias Schwartz
Previously, the Federal President had, together with Dietmar Woidke, the exhibition “fontane.200/author“ and the birth house of Theodor Fontane visited. The writer, Journalist and pharmacist Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) is to his 200. Birthday honored in the city of his birth with a great Look. Fontane created works of world literature such as “Effi Briest” or “trials, tribulations”. With them signed, and he coined the image of Prussia in the 19th century. Century. (dpa)