Virtual Exhibition: Tracing Fontane’s Legacy

(opens enlarged image) — The famous picture of Theodor Fontane at his desk, taken in 1896 by the Zander & Labisch photo studio. The desk was specially moved to the center of the room for the photo in order to appropriately stage Fontane.

For more than eighty years, the Theodor Fontane Archive has been preserving, indexing, researching and presenting the most extensive authentic »traces« of Theodor Fontane. Since the end of 2019, these »traces« - thousands of manuscripts, but also paintings, drawings and photos as well as life documents of all kinds - can be experienced even more vividly by visitors of the archive: The mobile panel exhibition »Tracing Fontane’s Legacy« allows you to explore the Theodor Fontane Archive - its history, holdings and activities - and a wide variety of life documents of Theodor Fontane.

Traces of His Life

Virtual Exhibition pt. 1

Traces of His Works

Virtual Exhibition pt. 2

The exhibition and workshop project »Tracing Fontane’s Legacy« was made possible through funding that the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer des Theodor-Fontane-Archivs e.V. (Society of Friends and Sponsors of the Theodor Fontane Archive) was able to acquire from »Kulturland Brandenburg« and the »Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien« (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).

On our website you can find a small excerpt from the exhibition, which invites you to follow the traces of Theodor Fontane’s life and writing by exploring carefully chosen objects from the archive’s holdings. With this digital exhibition, we hope to pique your interest and we would be pleased to welcome you to an »analog« visit to the Theodor Fontane Archive.

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