Charlotte Jolles

Charlotte Alice Bertha Eva Jolles (5 October 1909 – 31 December 2003) was an Anglo-German literary scholar. She was an enthusiast and expert on the realist writer Theodor Fontane.

Life Jolles was born in Berlin in 1909 and she was brought up at Grossbeeren Str. 82, Kreuzberg. Jolles resigned in 1977 as a Professor emeritus to undertake research.

During the Cold War she was able to travel to Potsdam in East Germany as part of her research and she encountered no barriers. She was able to exchange ideas on both sides of the "Iron Curtain". In 1983 her 1936 PhD thesis was rediscovered in Berlin University and it could finally be published and it needed no corrections. In 1990 the Theodor Fontane Society was formed and Jolles became its long term President.