A member of two important literary societies, the Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas.
Der Tunnel über der Spree was a German literary society based in Berlin, founded on 3 December 1827 by Moritz Gottlieb Saphir.
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To avoid confusion with fanclubs of the singer Henriette Sontag, the name was changed to "Tunnel over the Spree," a topical reference to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's tunnel under the Thames, which would lead to an abortive effort to create a similar tunnel in Berlin.
Der Spiegel | Der Rosenkavalier | Der Ring des Nibelungen | Rotenburg an der Fulda | Channel Tunnel | Spittal an der Drau | Limburg an der Lahn | Weiden in der Oberpfalz | tunnel | Dillingen an der Donau | Van der Graaf Generator | Kirchdorf an der Krems | Der Freischütz | Befehlshaber der U-Boote | The Time Tunnel | Serena van der Woodsen | Rothenburg ob der Tauber | Oberkommando der Wehrmacht | Holland Tunnel | Fréjus Rail Tunnel | Neustadt an der Orla | Neukirch an der Thur | Der Vampyr | Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft | Neuberg an der Mürz | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Brandenburg an der Havel | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe | wind tunnel | Theater an der Wien |
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.