- Theodor Storm
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name = Theodor Storm
caption = Theodor Storm (1886)
birthdate =September 14 ,1817
birthplace = Husum,Schleswig-Holstein
deathdate =July 4 ,1888
deathplace =Hademarschen ,Germany
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website = Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (September 14 ,1817 in Husum,Schleswig-Holstein , then Danish, today inGermany -July 4 ,1888 inHademarschen ,Germany ) studied and practicedlaw in Schleswig-Holstein and - emigrated under Danish rule - toThuringia . He also wrote a number of stories, poems and novellas. His two most well-known works are the novellas "Immensee" (1849) [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6650] and "The Dykemaster (Der Schimmelreiter)", first published in April 1888 in the "Deutsche Rundschau ". Other published works include a volume of his poems (1852), the novella "Pole Poppenspäler" (1874) and the novella "Aquis submersus" (1877).Analysis
Theodor Storm, like
Friedrich Hebbel , is a child of the North Sea Plain, but while in Hebbel's verse there is hardly any direct reference to his native landscape, Storm again and again sings its chaste beauty - and while Hebbel could find a home away from his native heath, Storm clung to it with a jealous love.He was born in
Husum (‘die graue Stadt am grauen Meer’: ‘the grey town by the grey sea’) on the west coast ofSchleswig-Holstein of well-to-do parents. While still a student of law, he published a first volume of verse together with the brothers Tycho andTheodor Mommsen .His favorite poets were
Joseph von Eichendorff andEduard Mörike , and the influence of the former is plainly discernible even in Storm's later verse. Storm left his mother in 1851 and did not return until 1864, afterSchleswig-Holstein had become German. During a summer visit toBaden-Baden in 1864, where he had been invited by his friend, the author and painterLudwig Pietsch , he made the acquaintance of the great Russian writerIvan Turgenev . They exchanged letters and sent each other copies of their works over a number of years.Samples
(Analysis and original text of the poem from A Book of German Lyrics, ed. Friedrich Bruns, which is available in
Project Gutenberg at http://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/8glyr10.txt.)External links
* [http://www.theodorstorm.co.uk Theodor Storm and his world]
* [http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Storm,+Theodor Biography and many works by Storm]
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* [http://www.valeriodistefano.com/schimmelreiter.htm Der Schimmelreiter] (Audiobook in German)Persondata
NAME = Storm, Theodor
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = German novelist
DATE OF BIRTH =September 14 ,1817
PLACE OF BIRTH = Husum,Schleswig-Holstein ,Germany
DATE OF DEATH =Hademarschen ,Germany
PLACE OF DEATH =July 4 ,1888
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