Hoffman - the famous storyteller, whose namefamiliar to both children and adults. Everyone remembers who wrote The Nutcracker. Many understand that Hoffman was not just a writer, but a real wizard. Well, how can an ordinary person create such wonderful stories from the void?
The birth of a writer
Принято считать, что волшебники появляются на the light is where they desire it. Ernst Theodor Wilhelm (as his name sounded at the beginning of his life) was born in a beautiful city called Königsberg. On that day, the church honored St. John Chrysostom. The father of the future writer became a lawyer.
Hoffman's Hobbies
From an early age Ernst loved music, she was hisoutlet. Later he even changed his name, and from Wilhelm he turned into Amadeus (that was the name of Mozart). The boy played the organ, violin, piano, wrote poetry, was fond of painting and vocal. When he grew up, his parents left him no choice, and the guy had to continue the family tradition of becoming an official.
Study and work
Ernst obeyed his father, disaccustomed at the university andFor a long time he worked in all kinds of judicial departments. He could not settle down somewhere: he was driving around the Polish and Prussian cities endlessly, sneezing in dusty documents, dozing at court hearings and depicting cartoons on his colleagues in the fields of important papers. At that time, he could not even dream that he would one day become famous, and everyone would know who wrote The Nutcracker.
Berlin and Bamberg
Repeatedly unlucky lawyer tried to quitfrom work but to no avail. Once he went to the capital of Germany to study painting and music there, but he did not earn a penny there. Then he went to a small town called Bamberg, where he worked as a conductor, composer, decorator, theater director, wrote essays and reviews for the newspaper about music, tutoring, and even sold pianos and notes. However, the author of the Nutcracker fairy tale never received much money or fame.
Dresden and Leipzig, the creation of the "Golden Pot"
Once Hoffman realized that he could no longerstay in Bamberg, and went to Dresden, where he soon followed to Leipzig, almost died from a bomb explosion during one of the final Napoleonic battles, and then ...
Perhaps this can be called favorfate or with the help of John Chrysostom, but one day Ernst took a pen, put it in ink and ... Suddenly there was a ring of crystal bells, an emerald snake began to stir in a tree and the work “Golden Pot” was created. It was 1814.
"Fantasies in the manner of Kallo"
Hoffman finally realized that his purposelies in literature, the gates of an amazing and magical country opened before him. However, it is worth noting that he had previously written, for example, in 1809, the Cavalier Gluck was created. Soon, whole notebooks were written with fairy tales, and then they were included in the book “Fantasies in the manner of Kallo”. Works like many, and Hoffman immediately gained fame. Even now, if you ask a modern child who wrote The Nutcracker, he will most likely answer correctly.
Great secret
Hoffman said he was like a childborn on Sunday, he notices what ordinary people do not see. The tales and tales of the author could be funny and frightening, kind and terrible, but the mystical in them appeared unexpectedly, out of the simplest things, sometimes from the air. This was the great secret that the writer first grasped. Gradually, Hoffman became more and more famous, but he did not add money to him. Therefore, the storyteller again had to become an adviser to justice, this time in the capital of Germany.
Creation of famous works
This city the author of "The Nutcracker" calledhuman desert, he was very uncomfortable here. However, it was in Berlin that almost all of his famous works were created. These are "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", "Night Stories" (breathtaking from them), "Little Tsakhes", "The everyday views of the cat Murr", "Princess Brambilla" and others. Over time, Hoffmann had friends with the same rich inner world and developed imagination, like himself. They often led serious and funny conversations about psychology, art, and many other things. And it was on the basis of these conversations that the four volumes of the Serapion Brothers were created. By opening any of these books, you can find out who wrote The Nutcracker, included in one of them. The name of the author is indicated on the first page.
The tragic event, the creation of "The Lord of Fleas"
Hoffman had many new ideas and ideas, serviceIt took not a lot of time, and everything would be fine, if it were not for one tragic accident. The writer once witnessed how an innocent man wanted to go to prison, and he stood up for this man. But a police director named von Kamptz enraged this act. Moreover, the brave author of The Nutcracker portrayed this unjust man in The Lord of the Fleas, which was written in 1822. He gave him the name Knarrpanty and described how he first detained people, and then hung them with appropriate offenses. Von Kamptz was just furious and asked the king to destroy the manuscript of this story. So a legal case was initiated, and only the help of friends and a serious illness helped the writer to avoid unpleasant consequences.
End of the road
Hoffman lost the ability to move, but to the endbelieved in recovery. At the end of life was created the story "Corner Window" - the last gift to the admirers of the writer. But the vast majority of people remember him thanks to the famous Christmas tale, which won many hearts. By the way, many children will find out about the author of The Nutcracker at school.
The most famous work
Separately, it should be said about the workThe Nutcracker and the Mouse King, included in the book The Serapion Brothers. This tale is best read at Christmas, since the action takes place at this particular time. The creation of this masterpiece by Hoffman was inspired by the children of his friend Julius Hitzig, whom he met in the capital of Poland. With their names and certain personality traits, the German writer rewarded the characters of his work. When the tale was ready, the guys read it by the author himself. "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" is a great piece, as they thought.
Marie Hitzig, which in the fairy tale bears the nameStalbaum, unfortunately, died early. And her brother named Fritz, who gave the team to tin soldiers in the Nutcracker, studied at the architect and became director of the Academy of Fine Arts, located in the German capital.
We are only puppets ...
Have you ever wondered whythe hero of the work was a toy? Just a writer who had been fond of theater for some time was close to puppets and dolls. His friend told me that Hoffmann had a wardrobe full of toys. The writer believed that people are just puppets, and Fate itself pulls the strings, which is not always supportive of us. He often repeated that everything would be as gods want.
So you remembered who wrote the fairy tale The Nutcracker, which your parents probably read.
