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6 unusual facts about Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué


Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

William Morris also became an admirer of Sintram and his Companions, and it influenced

Robert Louis Stevenson admired Fouqué's story "The Bottle Imp" and wrote his own version (The Bottle Imp)

Sintram and his Companions and Undine are referred to in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; the character Jo mentions wanting them for Christmas in the first chapter of the book and finally receives them in chapter 22.

Günter de Bruyn

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: Ritter und Geister, Berlin 1980 (Märkischer Dichtergarten)

Joseph Mozier

His best-known work is Undine, the title character in the novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, a water nymph who falls in love with a man.

Ondine, ou La naïade

July, 1851.Ondine, ou La naïade is a ballet in three acts and six scenes with choreography by Jules Perrot, music by Cesare Pugni and a libretto inspired by the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.


Fanny Tarnow

In 1805 she began publishing her journals anonymously and made contact with cultural figures including Johann Friedrich Rochlitz, Julius Eduard Hitzig, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rosa Maria Assing, Rahel and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense.


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