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Ernst Theodor 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, composer, music critic and artist.
Jun 22, 2024 · E.T.A. Hoffmann was a German writer, composer, and painter known for his stories in which supernatural and sinister characters move in and out of men’s lives, ironically revealing tragic or grotesque sides of human nature.
E. T. A. Hoffmann (für Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, eigentlich Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; * 24. Januar 1776 in Königsberg, Ostpreußen; † 25. Juni 1822 in Berlin) war ein bedeutender deutscher Schriftsteller der Romantik. Außerdem wirkte er als Jurist, Komponist, Kapellmeister, Musikkritiker, Zeichner und Karikaturist .
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. Hoffmann was one of the key authors of the later the Romantic movement and a transitional figure.
Composer, musician, and artist E. T. A. Hoffmann is best known as a writer of bizarre and fantastic fiction. Drawing from English Gothic romance, eighteenth-century Italian comedy, the psychology of the abnormal, and the occult, he created a world in which everyday life is infused with the supernatural.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears as the hero.
Two hundred years ago, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann died in Berlin on 25 June 1822. A divide ran between music and his misery, cutting through his life and spurring his imagination: the imagination of the poet. What are we to make of a writer who says about himself: “I was born to be a musician.
