Theodor Fontane, Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg, Teil 1. Am Ruppiner See

Wanderings Through the Mark Brandenburg Directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz (with Klaus Schwarzkopf as narrator); a five-part production from 1985, broadcast on ZDF in 1986/87. The screenplay was written by Horst Pillau. The five parts followed the content and sequence of the five volumes of "Wanderings." The five-volume work Wanderings Through the Mark Brandenburg is the most extensive work by the German writer Theodor Fontane (born December 30, 1819, in Neuruppin; died September 20, 1898, in Berlin). In it, he describes the castles, monasteries, towns, and landscapes of the Mark Brandenburg, its inhabitants, and its history. Published between 1862 and 1889, the work is an expression of a growing Prussian national consciousness and Romanticism. The impressions and historical insights that Fontane gained while working on "Wanderings" formed the basis for his later major novels such as Effi Briest and Der Stechlin.