Theodor Storm

Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (* 14. September 1817 with Husum; † 4. July 1888 with Hanerau-Hademarschen) was a famous German writer for his works in prose and its poems.

Biography

Theodor Storm was born within a family from notable, with Husum, in the the Schleswig-Holstein, where it passed a happy and bucolic childhood. Theodor Storm was the first child of Johann Casimir Storm and Lucie Woldsen. Johann Casimir Storm had studied the right to Heidelberg and Kiel and had become legal adviser in the old harbor big city of Husum.

After obtaining the baccalaureat with Lübeck, Theodor Storm grants its Kiel and it settles as lawyer with Husum in 1843, and marries one of his cousins, Constance, in 1846. To its years of studies its friendships with Ferdinand Röse, Theodor and Tycho Mommsen go back. In 1843 it publishes with the Mommsen brothers the “ Lieder Buch dreier Freunde ” (delivers songs of the three friends).

In hillock with the Danish government which proclaims in 1848 a new constitution, Storm chooses to leave Husum in 1853 to show its disapproval of the statute under consideration for the Schleswig-Holstein. After difficult beginnings as lawyer with the service of the Prussian State, it occupies a post of judge with Potsdam, then with Heiligenstadt in Thuringe. In 1864 after the departure of Danish, it returns in Husum where it works as judge, it is also responsible for the police force and the businesses of supervision. In 1880 it definitively leaves Husum to live in Hademarschen, close to Itzehoe.

Storm dies of a cancer on July 4th, 1888, it rests with the cemetery St Jürgen, located Osterende at Husum. 10 years later on September 14th, 1898, one set up a bust sculté by Adolf Brütt in his memory with Husum.

Literature of Theodor Storm

Storm drew initially its literary inspiration in the legendary accounts of the popular tradition, but also in authors like Eduard Mörike, of which it was friendly and correspondent, or Paul Heyse, with which it also bound during his exile. Its first poems were published in a collective work, Livre of songs of the three friends (1843), with those of his/her friend of childhood Theodor Mommsen. They express its love without hope for a boyfriend of its sister, Bertha Buchan, eleven years old. With Immensee (1851), a nostalgic news and melancholic person on the lost paradise of childhood, he affirmed his talent and gained a certain notoriety. Influenced by the first lyric poems of Goethe, he sought to translate in his work his sights on the love, nature and his attachment impassioned in Germany. Its step was been useful by an at the same time evocative and simple, remarkable style by its musical quality as by its formal perfection.

Maturity coming, it showed in its news a large smoothness for the psychological examination, a realism more marked and an increasing interest for problems exceeding the individual. Among this news, let us quote Viola will tricolora (1874), Aquis submersus (1876), Renate (1878) or Heinz Kirch (1882). He wrote on late tragedy which is perhaps its masterpiece, the Man with the white horse (1888).

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