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English
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Three women, three stories
Prussia, around 1870.
In Errors and Entanglements, the likable seamstress Lene Nimptsch is in love with the aristocratic officer Botho. Mrs. Jenny Treibel, now wealthy through marriage, still raves about her childhood sweetheart, a teacher and poet. Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries a Prussian nobleman and government official. She soon can no longer bear her boring life with her cold, dutiful husband and dishonors him by having an affair.
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane, was born in Neuruppin in 1819 and died in Berlin in 1898. He is considered the most important writer of German realism.
A pharmacist by profession, Fontane was arrested during the Franco-Prussian War for suspected espionage. He worked as a journalist, literary and theater critic, and travel writer. At age 60, he began writing the novels that would make him famous.
Without moralizing, Fontane portrayed the people and social reality of Prussian society, whose members often had exaggerated notions of duty, honor, and class consciousness.
Fontane frequently describes the fate of women, showing himself to be extremely understanding of their desires and problems. This is particularly evident in his novels Errors and Entanglements, Mrs. Jenny Treibel, and Effi Briest, in which his appreciation for intelligent, courageous, strong, and independent women is clear.
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