The Sandman (short story)
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"The Sandman" is a short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled Die Nachtstücke.
1817 short story collection Die Nachtstücke (The Night Pieces), Berlin
E. T. A. Hoffmann
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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. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.
Self-portrait
Hoffmann's portrait of Kapellmeister Kreisler
Grave of E. T. A. Hoffmann. Translated, the inscription reads: E. T. W. Hoffmann, born on 24 January 1776, in Königsberg, died on 25 June 1822, in Berlin, Councillor of the Court of Justice, excellent in his office, as a poet, as a musician, as a painter, dedicated by his friends.
Statue of "E. T. A. Hoffmann and his cat" in Bamberg