page_title: Theodor Fontane
section_title: Newspaper writer and critic
hierarchical_section_title: Theodor Fontane / Newspaper writer and critic
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: “Der moderne Buchdruck“, Detail der vierten Skulptur von sechs beim Berliner Walk of Ideas zur FIFA Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft Deutschland 2006, enthüllt am 21. April 2006 auf dem Bebelplatz, einem Platz nahe dem Boulevard Unter den Linden gegenüber der Humboldt Universität. Die Skulptur erinnert an Johannes Gutenberg, den Erfinder des modernen Buchdruck um 1450 in Mainz. English: "Modern Book Printing" (detail), fourth sculpture (from six) of the Berlin Walk of Ideas on the occasion of 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. Unveiling: 21 April 2006 at Bebelplatz, square near the Unter den Linden in front of Humboldt University. It is to commemorate to Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of modern book printing around 1450 in Mainz
context_page_description: Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many to be the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.
context_section_description: In 1844 Fontane enrolled in the Prussian army and set out on the first of many journeys to England. There he learned about old English ballads. Soon afterwards he wrote ballads himself. At that time he became engaged to his future wife, Emilie Rouanet-Kummer, whom he had first met when still at school.
  He was - very short - enganged in the revolutionary events of the revolution of 1848. In 1849 he quit his job as an apothecary and became a full-time journalist and writer. In order to support his family he took a job as a writer for the Prussian intelligence agency Centralstelle für Preßangelegenheiten which was meant to influence the press towards a  German national cause. Again he specialised in British affairs, and the agency sent him as correspondent to London for a couple of years. His wife and two sons followed him there. While still in London he quit his government job and, on his return to Berlin, became editor of the conservative Kreuzzeitung (newspaper).
caption: "Modern Book Printing" from the Walk of Ideas in Berlin, Germany - built in 2006 to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg's invention, c. 1445, of movable printing type.
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