E.T.A. Hoffmann
Romantic era writer
E.T.A.
Hoffmann was a German Romantic writer, composer, and artist of the early nineteenth century, known for fantastical tales blending the supernatural with psychological depth.
His stories inspired Offenbach's opera *Tales of Hoffmann* and Tchaikovsky's *Nutcracker* ballet.
The initials stand for Ernst Theodor Amadeus—he changed Wilhelm to Amadeus in homage to Mozart.
- automatonSelf-moving mechanical device
- living dollExceptionally kind, obliging person
- operaTheatrical art combining song
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
- supernatural taleStory featuring unearthly elements
Edgar Allan Poe · Sandman · imagination · doppelgänger · split personality · Romantic music · psychological horror · German folklore · duality · uncanny · Schumann · fairy tales · dreamscapes · Nutcracker · Tchaikovsky · nightmarish · symbolism · subjectivity
- German AuthorsGoethe, Thomas Mann, Mann, Franz Kafka, Kafka
- German LiteratureGoethe, Mann, Kafka, Franz Kafka, Rilke
- German RomanticsGoethe, Grimm Brothers, Faust
- Prussian Writers
- Horror WritersStephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Shirley Jackson
- Early Sci-Fi AuthorsJules Verne, H.G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Edgar Rice Burroughs
E.T.A. HoffmannÉmile Zola
Gustave Flaubert · Charles Dickens · Leo Tolstoy · George Eliot · social realism