Bequests & Estates

Partial Estate Dober

Paul Dobert (1860 - 1931) was, among other things, editor of the magazine Nord und Süd, later editor-in-chief of Die Woche. He was significantly involved in the early work on Theodor Fontane’s estate. In the archive we preserve a partial estate with letters, notes,and printed matter, which can, for example, provide information about the early history of the Fontane estate.

Partial Estate Kummer

The partial estate of Bertha and especially Karl Wilhelm Kummer, the adoptive parents of Emilie Fontane, includes handwritten and printed materials - letters, drawings, official documents, expert opinions, photographs, and objects - from the 1820s to the 1870s. It is of particular interest with regard to the activities of the inventor, cartographer, botanist and artist Karl Wilhelm Kummers.

Partial Estate Paul Conrad

With the »Sammlung Conrad« (Conrad Collection), the archive perserves an important bibliophile collection of the Fontane researcher Paul Conrad (1906-1985), including several first editions of the works of Theodor Fontane.
 

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Partial Estate Renate Böschenstein

A part of the estate with manuscripts and working materials of the literary scholar and Fontane expert Renate Böschenstein-Schäfer (1933-2003) has been kept in the Theodor Fontane Archive since 2004.

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Bequest Gotthard Erler

Working materials, lecture manuscripts, and documents on Fontane reception from the possession of Fontane researcher, editor, and publisher Gotthard Erler (*1933), which include an archive box with materials on publisher Fritz Landshoff, were given to the Theodor Fontane Archive in 2016.

Partial Estate Helmuth Nürnberger

A selection of the extensive private library of Fontane researcher Helmuth Nürnberger (1930-2017), as well as parts of his correspondence, have been housed in the Theodor Fontane Archive as the »Collection Nürnberger« since 2018.

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