Frau Jenny Treibel: Roman aus der Berliner Gesellschaft

Frau Jenny Treibel: Roman aus der Berliner Gesellschaft Theodor Fontane - Frau Jenny Treibel oder "Wo sich Herz zum Herzen find't" ist ein Roman Theodor Fontanes. Es geht um Besitz und das mit ihm verbundene gesellschaftliche Ansehen, um Bildung versus Besitz, um Poesie, echte und falsche Gefühle. Im Zentrum des Romans stehen zwei Berliner Familien: Zum einen die großbürgerlichen Treibels - der Kommerzienrat, seine Frau Jenny sowie die Söhne Otto und Leopold, zum anderen Gymnasialprofessor Wilibald Schmidt und seine Tochter Corinna, welche das Bildungsbürgertum repräsentieren. Halb ironisch wird dem Leser eine Geschichte nach dem Muster einer Komödie vorgeplaudert. Fontane verarbeitet hier seine Erfahrungen mit einem Bürgertum, bei dem Ideale und Handeln, moralische Grundsätze und praktisches Entscheiden diametral entgegengesetzt sind. Ende 1892 ausgeliefert, gewann der Roman sehr schnell die Gunst von Publikum und Kritik, die er bis heute ohne erkennbare Einschränkung bewahrt hat.Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Er gilt als bedeutendster deutscher Vertreter des Realismus.

Theodor Fontane, novelist, critic, poet, and travel writer, was one of the most celebrated nineteenth-century German men of letters. He was born into a French Huguenot family in the Prussian town of Neuruppin, where his father owned a small pharmacy. His fathers gambling debts forced the family to move repeatedly, and eventually his temperamentally mismatched parents separated. Though Fontane showed early interest in history and literaturejotting down stories in his school notebookshe could not afford to attend university; instead he apprenticed as a pharmacist and eventually settled in Berlin. There he joined the influential literary society Tunnel über der Spree, which included among its members Theodor Storm and Gottfried Keller, and turned to writing. In 1850 Fontanes first published books, two volumes of ballads, appeared; they would prove to be his most successful books during his lifetime. He spent the next four decades working as a critic, journalist, and war correspondent while producing some fifty works of history, travel narrative, and fiction. His early novels, the first of which was published in 1878, when Fontane was nearly sixty, concerned recent historical events. It was not until the late 1880s that he turned to his great novels of modern society, remarkable for their psychological insight: Trials and Tribulations (1888), Irretrievable (1891), Frau Jenny Treibel (1892), and Effi Briest (1895). During his last years, Fontane returned to writing poetry, and, while recovering from a severe illness, wrote an autobiographical novel that would prove to be a late commercial success. He is buried in the French section of the Friedhof II cemetery in Berlin.