''Der Stechlin'' () is a

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

Theodor Fontane Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known toda ...

written between 1895 and 1897, and first published in the

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'' Über Land und Meer''. It was published in book form in 1898. It is Fontane's second longest novel, and his last novel published before he died, about a year after its publication. Its central figure is the aging Dubslav von Stechlin, widowed for thirty years and living alone in his somewhat dilapidated mansion near the shore of Lake Stechlin, to be imagined as being in the neighbourhood of Fontane's native Neuruppin. Dubslav, a man of honest and humorous character, refuses to take himself seriously, and lives modestly and contentedly in contact with his elderly valet Engelke, his politically progressive vicar Lorenzen, and Krippenstapel, the most Prussian of Prussian schoolmasters. Dubslav's only son, Woldemar, is a captain in a cavalry regiment of the guard in Berlin.Der Stechlin
/ref> Through the character of Stechlin, Fontane depicted an ideal type of a patriarchal family head of Prussian

Junker Junker ( da, Junker, german: Junker, nl, Jonkheer, en, Yunker, no, Junker, sv, Junker ka, იუნკერი (Iunkeri)) is a noble honorific, derived from Middle High German ''Juncherre'', meaning "young nobleman"Duden; Meaning of Junke ...

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Mi-Ae Chon: ''Charakter und Funktion Melusines in Fontanes Altersroman „Der Stechlin“''
1897 German novels Novels set in Berlin Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in German magazines Works originally published in literary magazines Novels by Theodor Fontane {{1890s-novel-stub