Theodor Storm

Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm, known as Theodor Storm, was a German-Frisian writer and poet, born in 1817 in Husum on the west coast of the Duchy of Schleswig, and is considered one of the most important figures of German realism. He studied law in Kiel and Berlin, published a first volume of verse with the brothers Tycho and Theodor Mommsen in 1843, and worked as a lawyer in Husum until the Danish authorities revoked his admission in 1852. He later returned to Husum as a district magistrate and spent his last years in Hademarschen, where he died in 1888. He wrote poems, stories and about fifty novellas, and his best-known works are Immensee of 1849 and Der Schimmelreiter, first published in 1888, whose North German coast and dykes are central to its atmosphere.