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Theodor Woldsen '''Storm''' ( September 14 , 1817 in Husum , Sleswick-Holsatia , then Danish, today Germany - July 4 , 1888 in Hademarschen , Germany ) studied and practiced Law in Schleswig-Holstein and - emigrated under Danish rule - in Thuringia . He also wrote a number of stories, poems and novellas. His two most well-known works are the novellas ''Immensee'' (1849) {Link without Title} and ''Der Schimmelreiter'' (1888). 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 of Schleswig-Holstein of well-to-do parents. While still a student of law, he published a first volume of verse together with the brothers Tycho and Theodor Mommsen . His favorite poets were Joseph Von Eichendorff and Eduard Mörike , and the influence of the former is plainly discernible even in Storm's later verse. Storm left his home in 1851 and did not return until 1864, after Schleswig-Holstein had become German. 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 |
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