She had stepped close to the place where the seal lay, and Rollo was standing next to her. Then, they both looked out from the rock to the sea and waited to see if the "mermaid" would come back into sight.
Theodor Fontane: »Effie Briest«, 1896
Fontane
Exhibition and publication project, 2002 – 2019
20.9.2019 – 5.1.2020 »Fontane Today» in the exhibition »Fontane´s Berlin« at Märkisches Museum, Stadtmuseum Berlin.