Famous people - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1969 - 40 Pfennig

Significant Personalities Edition 1969 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four special postage stamps depicting important personalities. The writer Theodor Fontane was born on December 30, 1819 in Neuruppin. At first he worked as a pharmacist. His first successes as a writer he gained with ballads and with the description of walks through the market Brandenburg. He became one of the most important critical German critics of the nineteenth century with the novels he began writing at the age of sixty (for example, "Chess of Wuthenow," "Die Stechlin," "Effi Briest," "Frau Jenny Treibel"). Theodor Fontane died on September 20, 1898 in Berlin.