Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) was Germany's greatest realist novelist. He has been called by Jeffrey Sammons "the major novelist in the German language between Goethe and Fontane." Das Odfeld, first published in 1888-89, occupies an undisputed place amon...
Wilhelm Raabe's novel entitled Der Hungerpastor (1864) is a classic example of the so-called "poetic realism" to which many - primarily bourgeois - German writers were devoted between 1850 and 1890. --- Wilhelm Raabe (1831 - 1910) became famous follo...
He was born in Eschershausen (then in the Duchy of Brunswick, now in the Holzminden District). After attending gymnasia in Holzminden and Wolfenbüttel, he entered a bookstore in Magdeburg as apprentice in 1849. He used this opportunity for wide ...