Theodor Storm

Biography

Theodor Storm was born on the 14th of September 1817 in Husum, North Germany, direct on the Northern Sea. As the son of a lawyer he got a very good education (for this time, of course) at Husum and Luebeck, and went to university for studying law between 1837-42. After the occupation of his homeland through the Danish he flew to Potsdam, but went back to his region in 1864. He got a job as a judge and died on the 4th of July 1888 in Hademarschen. The importance of Theodor Storm for the German literature is based on his short novels. Famous for at least five of them, his greatest works, such as the "Schimmelreiter", is read in schools until today as an example not only of literary realism, but also of well done structure.