His rapidity of literary production was almost without a parallel. He published about 160 works (plays, novels, and short stories) and a large number of works remained unpublished. His best novel is
Die Schildbürger (1823), a comical novel about
Schildbürger, residents of Schilda, a fictional German
town of fools (the text is available at
Google Books). He wrote many
comedies,
farces, and
satirical parodies. In
The Strahlau Haul of Fish (1822, a popular piece with songs, in the Berlin
patois) he gives the first example of the Berlinese farce.
Ini. Ein Roman aus dem ein und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (Ini. A novel from the 21st century, 1810) is regarded as the first German science fiction novel. == Publications ==