Gustav Freytag - Konstellationen Des Realismus

The work portrays Gustav Freytag as a key figure in the establishment of literary realism post 1848, and comprehensively contextualizes his writings. Starting from Freytag's successful works The Journalists and Debit and Credit, and his role as co-editor of the newspaper Die Grenzboten, the study examines the full range of the author's work while focusing on the typical contexts and constellations of the epoch.