1. Theodor Storm is considered to be one of the most important figures of German realism.
11 Facts About Theodor Storm
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Theodor Storm's parents were the lawyer Johann Casimir Storm and Lucie Storm, nee Woldsen.
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Theodor Storm attended school in Husum and Lubeck and studied law in Kiel and Berlin.
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Theodor Storm was involved in the 1848 revolutions and sympathized with the liberal goals of a united Germany under a constitutional monarchy in which every class could participate in the political process.
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In 1853 Theodor Storm moved to Potsdam, moving on to Heiligenstadt in Thuringia in 1856.
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Theodor Storm returned to Husum in 1865 after Schleswig had come under Prussian rule and became a district magistrate.
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In 1880 Theodor Storm moved to Hademarschen, where he spent the last years of his life writing, and died of cancer at the age of 70.
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Theodor Storm was married twice, first to Konstanze Esmarch, who died in 1864, and then to Dorothea Jensen.
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Theodor Storm was one of the most important authors of 19th-century German Literary realism.
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Theodor Storm wrote a number of stories, poems and novellas.
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In Der Schimmelreiter, the last of his 50 novellas and widely considered Theodor Storm's culminating masterpiece, the setting of the rural North German coast is central to evoking its unnerving, superstitious atmosphere, and sets the stage for the battleground of man versus nature: the dykes and the sea.