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4 unusual facts about Fritz Reuter


Fritz Reuter

In 1850 he settled as a private tutor in the little town of Treptow an der Tollense in Pomerania (today Altentreptow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), and was now able to marry Luise Kuntze, the daughter of a Mecklenburg pastor.

Here he was a member of the political students' club, or German Burschenschaft, and in 1833 was arrested in Berlin by the Prussian government and interned at Fort Silberberg in Silesia.

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Since 1960, the town features a museum dedicated to Fritz Reuter called Fritz-Reuter-Literaturmuseum.

Fritz Reuter, a notable author (his works were among the best selling of his time), was born in 1810 as son of the mayor.



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