The first comprehensive account of Theodor Fontane's work as a journalist from 1860 to 1870 on the conservative Neue Preuische Zeitung ("Kreuzzeitung"), Fontane penned numerous articles, purportedly from abroad, but actually written in Berlin ("false" correspondents' reports) close a gap in Fontane research. They present new and convincing examples of Fontane's inner path from his "middle" to his "late" period.