Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist...
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This is a chronological list of works by E. T. A. Hoffmann. "Ritter Gluck ['Chevalier Gluck']" (1st ed. 1809; final ed. 1819) First appeared with the byline...
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libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work;...
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Jacques Offenbach's 1881 opera The Tales of Hoffmann, itself based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The film stars Robert Rounseville, Moira...
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The E.T.A.-Hoffmann-Theater is a theatre in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany, named after the writer E. T. A. Hoffmann. 49°53′26″N 10°53′29″E / 49.89056°N...
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the previous night. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) wrote a short story in 1816 titled Der Sandmann, which showed how sinister such a character could be...
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Zheleznodorozhny] – 10 June 1843, in Bromberg) was a Prussian statesman, the friend of E. T. A. Hoffmann, and the author of Frederick William III's proclamation...
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novelists such as Mary Shelley, Charles Maturin, Walter Scott and E. T. A. Hoffmann frequently drew upon gothic motifs in their works. The early Victorian...
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The Sandman (short story) (category Short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann)
is a short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled Die Nachtstücke (The Night Pieces). The story is told by a narrator...
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1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as "one of the most important works of the...
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David Hoffmann (disambiguation) E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann; 1776–1822), German writer, eponym of The Tales of Hoffmann Erich Hoffmann...
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Johannes Kreisler (category E. T. A. Hoffmann)
Johannes Kreisler is the name of a character in three novels by E.T.A. Hoffmann: Kreisleriana (1813), Johannes Kreisler, des Kapellmeisters Musikalische...
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Spring 2017, Friedel played the role of Nathanael in a stage adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman by Robert Wilson at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus...
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Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (category Music based on works by E. T. A. Hoffmann)
source of inspiration for Schumann) by one of his favourite authors, E. T. A. Hoffmann. Schumann dedicated the pieces to Fräulein Anna Robena Laidlaw, an...
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E.T.A. Hoffmann. Das Leben eines skeptischen Phantasten (lit. 'E. T. A. Hoffmann: The Life of a Sceptical Fantasist') is a biography about E. T. A. Hoffmann...
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Königsberg (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
being the residence of Simon Dach, Immanuel Kant, Käthe Kollwitz, E. T. A. Hoffmann, David Hilbert, Agnes Miegel, Hannah Arendt, Michael Wieck, and others...
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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (category Short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann)
(German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a novella-fairy tale written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite...
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The Golden Pot (category Short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann)
The Golden Pot: A Modern Fairy Tale ("Der goldne Topf. Ein Märchen aus der neuen Zeit") is a novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann, first published in 1814 and...
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Little Zaches called Cinnabar (category Novels by E. T. A. Hoffmann)
Zaches genannt Zinnober) is a 1819 satirical fairytale fantasy novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The events of the book occur in a small, unnamed German principality...
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The Nutcracker (category Music based on works by E. T. A. Hoffmann)
Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination. The plot is an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story The Nutcracker and the...
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Novalis in his eponymous fragmentary novel written in 1800 and by E. T. A. Hoffmann in his 1818 novella Der Kampf der Sänger. The 24 Fürstenlob (princely...
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was a British biographer and translator of German philosophy and literature, especially the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, G...
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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (category Novels by E. T. A. Hoffmann)
Paper is a complex satirical novel by Prussian Romantic-era author E. T. A. Hoffmann. It was first published in 1819–1821 as Lebens-Ansichten des Katers...
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Wackenroder, Ludwig Tieck and E. T. A. Hoffmann but the term was not coined until 1846 where it was first used by Richard Wagner in a programme to Beethoven's...
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Walt Disney Pictures with The Mark Gordon Company, it is a retelling of E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", as well...
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Kreisleriana (category Music based on works by E. T. A. Hoffmann)
called it in a letter "my favourite work," remarking that "The title conveys nothing to any but Germans. Kreisler is one of E. T. A. Hoffmann's creations...
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by so doing, establishes a link to one of the major influences on the Romantic movement generally. In 1810 E. T. A. Hoffmann named Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven...
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inspiration from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1791 opera The Magic Flute and E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1814 novella The Golden Pot, as well as some of his own nightmares...
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The Devil's Elixirs (category Novels by E. T. A. Hoffmann)
Devil's Elixirs (German: Die Elixiere des Teufels) is an 1815 novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The basic idea for the story was adopted from Matthew Gregory Lewis's...
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