When was Fritz Reuter born?
Q: When was Fritz Reuter born?
A: Fritz Reuter was born on November 7, 1810.
Q: Where did he study at university?
A: Fritz Reuter studied at the University of Rostock and the University of Jena.
Q: What happened when he was arrested in Berlin by the Prussian government?
A: The Prussian government condemned him to death for high treason, even though they could only prove that he had worn the club's colours. King Frederick William III of Prussia changed this to imprisonment for thirty years.
Q: What did Reuter do after his release from prison?
A: After his release from prison, Reuter started studying law again at the University of Heidelberg but had to leave and go back to Stavenhagen and help to run his father's farm. When his father died, he gave up farming, and in 1850 became a private teacher in a little town then called Treptow-an-der-Tollense in Pomerania. Here he married Luise Kunze, the daughter of a Mecklenburg pastor.
Q: What are some of Reuter's best books?
A: Ut de Franzosentid and Ut mine Stromtid are two of Fritz Reuter's best books. In them he describes the men and women he knew in the villages and farmhouses of Mecklenburg. Ut de Franzosentid is set at the time of the fight against Napoleon while Ut mine Stromtid describes the revolutionary movement of 1848.
Q: Where did Reuter move after Neubrandenburg?
A: After leaving Neubrandenburg, Fritz Reuter moved to Eisenach where he died on 12 July 1874.
Q: How were his later writings compared with earlier works?
A: His later writings were not as good as his earlier ones written before moving to Eisenach
