Friedrich De La Motte Fouqu (1777–1843) was a German Romantic writer. Amongst many popular plays, novels, and epics, he authored the tragic fairy tale novella ‘Undine’ (1811). The story was highly influential and inspired Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ (1837). He was also the first modern German to dramatize the Nibelung legend in 1808.
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Friedrich De La Motte Fouqu: Undine – Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
This early German romance tells the tragic tale of a young water spirit, Undine, who marries a knight in an attempt to gain a soul. Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s fairy tale novella is the sad tale o …
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