![]() ![]() His Märchen-dark short stories and magical fables-blended the fantastic and the macabre with realism, allegory, and metaphor. By his early thirties, however, he had begun to devote more of his energy to writing prose, publishing his first collection of stories, the landmark, two-volume Fantasiestücke in Callot's Manier, in 18. He began his career as a composer, writing nine operas, a symphony, and numerous shorter pieces over the course of a successful music career. Hoffmann was arguably the most original and influential fiction writer of the German Romantic era. The following entry presents an overview of Hoffmann's career through 2004. (Full name Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann) German short-story writer, novelist, essayist, composer, and librettist. ![]()
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