In 1833 Theodor Fontane - then a fourteen-year old boy - visited the site of the Battle of Großbeeren and was deeply impressed, later writing a school essay about this battle - the first work known to have been penned by a man who would become a major German writer.
The poet Theodor Fontane argued in favor of this, with his poem "Wo Bismarck liegen soll" ("Where Bismarck should lie"), which appeared in the newspaper on 3 August 1898, four days after Bismarck's death.
The German novelist Theodor Fontane used the death of Rhenanian Emil Hartwich (1843- 1886; district judge in Düsseldorf) during a duel with Baron Léon Armand von Ardenne as guideline for his novel Effi Briest in 1894.
Theodor Fontane's poem, Das Trauerspiel von Afghanistan (The Tragedy of Afghanistan) also refers to the massacre of Elphinstone’s army.
Gough or Alger, perhaps both, were the source for Theodor Fontane's ballad John Maynard which remains to this day popular in German speaking countries.
Theodor Fontane: poems by Theodor Fontane, 21-23 editions, p.
The Tay is mentioned in William McGonagall's poems The Tay Bridge Disaster and Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay and the German poet Theodor Fontane has mentioned the Tay in his poem Die Brück' am Tay.
In 1843, he joined a literary club in Berlin called Tunnel über der Spree (Tunnel over the river Spree) where he came into contact with many of the most renowned German writers including Theodor Storm, Joseph von Eichendorff and Gottfried Keller.
Theodor Fontane | Theodor Mommsen | Theodor Herzl | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Thomas Theodor Heine | Theodor Boveri | Theodor Meynert | Theodor Storm | Theodor Loos | Theodor Leschetizky | Theodor Kittelsen | Theodor Eimer | Theodor Schwenk | Theodor Leutwein | Theodor Kirchner | Theodor Heuss | Theodor Estermann | Theodor Busse | Theodor Anton Ippen | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg | Karl Theodor | Johannes Theodor Reinhardt | Theodor Wertheim | Theodor Uppman | Theodor Reuss | Theodor Reik | Theodor Kullak | Theodor Körner | Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Heilbronn |
He did portraits of Intendant General von Hülsen, the painter Theodor Weber, the writer Theodor Fontane and others.
Among those who have such tombs of honor in Berlin are Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bertolt Brecht, Wilhelm Busch, Theodor Fontane, Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Georg Ludwig Hartig, Heinrich von Kleist, Hildegard Knef, Otto Lilienthal, Herbert Marcuse Felix Mendelssohn, Marg Moll Helmut Newton, Ernst Reuter, Joachim Ringelnatz, Heinrich Zille and Arnold Zweig.
Theodor Fontane was inspired by the Work of Emil Hünten for his novel Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg.
In Theodor Fontane's novel Frau Jenny Treibel, Rodigast is mentioned as a devout poet and teacher.