sentences:  Deciding that he could make writing his career, he moved to Berlin in the fall of 1886, financially supported by his parents.In Berlin-Friedrichshagen he became a central figure in the "Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis“, which was an association of writers of naturalism, holding their first meetings in 1888/89 in the houses of Wilhelm Bölsche and Bruno Wille in Friedrichshagen am Müggelsee (now in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick).This circle of friends would visit Erkner, where they sought the tranquility of the Brandenburg landscape near the cosmopolitan city of Berlin.