author
Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
1777–1843
Best remembered for the fairy tale Undine, this Prussian Romantic writer filled his stories with knights, folklore, and a love of medieval legend. His work helped shape the dreamy, enchanted side of early 19th-century German literature.
10 Audiobooks
Sintram and His Companions
by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
The Two Captains
by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
Aallotar: Kertomus
by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
Undine
by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
Aslauga's Knight
by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
Undine
by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
Undine
by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
The magic ring, Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
The magic ring, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
The magic ring, Vol. 2 (of 3)
by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
About the author
Born in Brandenburg an der Havel in 1777, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de la Motte-Fouqué came from a family of French Huguenot origin with strong military ties. He served in the Prussian army and also studied at Halle, but literature became his lasting vocation.
He became one of the notable writers of German Romanticism, drawing on chivalric stories, Norse myth, and fairy-tale themes. His most famous work is Undine (1811), the story of a water spirit whose haunting mix of fantasy and emotion gave the book an enduring life far beyond its time.
Although he wrote novels, plays, and poems, his reputation today rests mainly on the magical atmosphere and legend-rich imagination of his best-known tales. He died in Berlin in 1843.