Aquis Submersus (novella)

Title page of the first edition

Aquis Submersus is an 1877 novella by the German writer Theodor Storm. It has also been published as Beneath the Flood. It is set in Northern Germany right after the Thirty Years' War and tells a tragic love story.

Publication

An English translation by Geoffrey Skelton was published in 1962 as Beneath the Flood.[1] New translations under the original title have been published in 1974 and 2015.[2][3]

Adaptations

The novella was the basis for the 1951 film Immortal Beloved, directed by Veit Harlan.[4] It was also the basis for Wolfgang Schleif's 1979 television drama Wie Rauch und Staub.[5]

References

1. The White horseman; Beneath the flood. OCLC 52026061. Retrieved 2016-05-13 – via WorldCat.
2. Aquis submersus. OCLC 1616586. Retrieved 2016-05-13 – via WorldCat.
3. A doppelgänger : with Aquis submersus. OCLC 892463449. Retrieved 2016-05-13 – via WorldCat.
4. Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 444. ISBN 9783110951943.
5. Carstens, Uwe (2008). Lieber Freund Ferdinand: Die bemerkenswerte Freundschaft zwischen Theodor Storm und Ferdinand Tönnies (in German). Books on Demand. p. 258. ISBN 9783837047622.