The fate of Hoffmann has developed tragically.The script was simple. A gifted raznochinets artist seeks to build a new culture and thereby elevate his homeland, and in response he receives insults, needy, reaching poverty, and abandonment.
A family
In Konigsberg, attorney Ludwig Hoffmann and hiswife-cousin in a cold January day is born in 1776, a son - Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann. After two years with a small parents divorced because of the unbearably difficult nature of the mother. The three-year-old Theodor Hoffman, whose biography begins with kinks, falls into the respectable burgher family of his lawyer’s uncle. But his teacher is not alien to art, science fiction and mysticism.
From the age of six the boy begins his studies inreformatory school. In seven years, he will acquire a faithful friend of Gottlieb Hippel, who will help Theodore in difficult periods and remain loyal to him until his death. The musical and pictorial data of Hoffmann appear early, and he is given to study by the organist-composer Podbelsky and the artist Zeman.
University
Under the influence of Uncle Ernst comes to legalDepartment of Königsberg University. Immanuel Kant is teaching there at this time, but his lectures do not attract the attention of such a person as Hoffmann. The biography says that all his aspirations are art (piano, painting, theater) and love.
Seventeen year old boy deeply fascinated by a marrieda woman who is nine years older. However, he graduated with honors from school. His love and connection with a married woman is revealed, and in order to avoid a scandal the young man is sent in 1796 to Glogau to visit his uncle.
Service
For some time he serves in Glogau.But all the time he is busy about the transfer to Berlin, in which he falls in 1798. A young man passes the next exam and receives the title of assessor. But being engaged in jurisprudence of necessity, Hoffman, whose biography shows a deep passion for music, is simultaneously studying the principles of musical composition. At this time he will write a performance and will try to put it on stage. He is poisoned to serve in Poznan. There he will write another musical and dramatic performance, which will be staged in this small Polish town. But the gray daily routine does not satisfy the artist's soul. As a vent he uses cartoons of the local community. Another scandal happens, after which Hoffmann is exiled to the provincial Plock.
After a while, Hoffmann finds his happiness.His biography changes due to his marriage to a quiet, benevolent, but distant from the violent aspirations of her husband, the girl Mihalina, or Misha for short. She will patiently endure all the antics and hobbies of her husband, and her daughter born in marriage will die at the age of two. In 1804, Hoffmann was transferred to Warsaw.
In the Polish capital
Serve it serves, but all free time andthoughts gives music. Here he writes the next musical performance and changes its third name. So Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman appears. Biography says about the worship of the works of Mozart. Thoughts are busy with music and painting. He paints the Mnisek Palace for the Musical Society and does not notice that Napoleon's troops entered Warsaw. The service stops, there is no money to take. He sends his wife to Poznan, and he is trying to get to Vienna or Berlin.
Need and lack of money
But in the end, life leads Hoffmann to townBamberg, where he gets the post of conductor. There he also transports his wife. Here arises the idea of the first novel “The Knight Gluck”. This period does not last long, but it is truly terrible. No money. The maestro even sells an old frock coat to eat. Hoffman just interrupted by music lessons in private homes. He dreamed of devoting his life to art, and as a result he was deeply desperate, which apparently affected his health and his death too early.
In 1809An irrational story “The Cavalier Gluck” appears, in which the free personality of the artist is opposed to a stale society. So literature enters the life of the creator. Always striving for music, Hoffmann, whose biography is full and multifaceted, will leave an indelible mark on another form of art.
Berlin
После продолжительных и непоследовательных, как у every great artist, throwing on the advice of a school friend Hippel Hoffmann moved to Berlin and again "harnessed" to work in the field of the judiciary. He, in his own words, is again “in prison,” which does not prevent him from being a great connoisseur of law. By 1814 his works “The Golden Pot” and “Fantasies in the manner of Kallo” were published.
Теодор Гофман (биография это показывает) признан as a writer. He visits literary salons, where he has signs of attention. But until the end of his life, he will retain an enthusiastic love of music and painting. By 1815, the need leaves his home. But he curses his own destiny, as the fate of a lonely, small, crushed and weak man.
Prose of life and art
Ernst Hoffman, whose biography continuesvery prosaically, still serves as a lawyer and compares his hateful work with the senseless, endless and dismal work of Sisyphus. Not only music and literature becomes an outlet, but also a glass of wine. When he is forgotten for a bottle in a zucchini and then returns home, he has frightening fantasies that lie on the paper.
Но совершенством становятся «Житейские воззрения Kota Murra ”, who lives at his home in love and love. The hero of the novel Kreisler, the priest of "pure art", changes the cities and principalities of the country in search of a corner where you can find harmony between society and the artist. Kreisler, whose autobiography is not questioned, dreams of raising a person from colorless everyday life to the heights of the divine spirit, into higher spheres.
Completion of life's journey
First, the beloved cat Murr will die.In less than a year, the great romanticist, who has already planned a new realistic path in literature, - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann - will die of paralysis at 46 years of age. His biography is a way of finding a way out of the "game of dark forces" to the "crystal streams of poetry."
