Theodor Storm (1817–1888) was a German poet and novelist from Schleswig-Holstein, master of the Novelle form. Der Schimmelreiter (1888) is his greatest work, but Aquis Submersus (1876) is his darkest — a tale of guilt and memory told through a seventeenth-century painter's diary.
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