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E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
1776–1822
A master of the uncanny, he filled Romantic-era fiction with doubles, dreams, automata, and sly humor. His stories helped shape modern fantasy and horror, and they still feel wonderfully strange.
21 Audiobooks
Deutsche Humoristen, 2. Band (von 8)
by Clemens Brentano, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann, Heinrich Zschokke
Lebensansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Der Goldene Topf
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
The Devil's Elixir, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Martti mestari ja hänen kisällinsä
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
The Devil's Elixir, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
De Gouden Vaas
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Weird Tales. Vol. 1 (of 2)
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Deutsche Humoristen, 6. Band (von 8) Humoristische Erzählungen
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann, Bettina von Arnim, Adolph Bayersdorfer, Friedrich Theodor Fischer, Ludwig Thoma, Henry F. Urban
Nachtstücke
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober: Ein Märchen
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Outo intohimo: Kertomus Ludvig XIV:n ajalta
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Kiusanhenki: Satu
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Pähkinänrusentaja ja hiirikuningas
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Hunnutettu nainen
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
The Serapion Brethren, Vol. II
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Weird Tales, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I.
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Die Elixiere des Teufels : Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus, eines Kapuziners
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Markiisittaren rikos
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
About the author
Born in Königsberg in 1776, E. T. A. Hoffmann was a German writer, composer, critic, artist, and jurist whose imagination ranged far beyond any single field. He was born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, but later changed Wilhelm to Amadeus out of admiration for Mozart.
He is best known for tales in which the supernatural and the unsettling slip into ordinary life. Works such as The Sandman, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, and the collections Fantasy Pieces in Callot’s Manner and Night Pieces made him one of the defining voices of German Romanticism. His fiction had a long afterlife in music and theater too, inspiring works including Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann.
Hoffmann spent much of his working life in the law and later served in Berlin, while continuing to write and compose. He died in Berlin in 1822, but his mix of wit, nightmare, and psychological intensity kept influencing later writers far beyond his own century.