E. T. A. Hoffmann - Legacy

Legacy

• Robertson Davies invokes Hoffmann as a character (with the pet name of 'ETAH') trapped in Limbo, within his novel The Lyre of Orpheus (1988).
• Andrew Crumey's novel Mobius Dick also mentions Hoffmann, and specifically The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr.
• Angela Carter – The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
• Alexandre Dumas, père referenced Hoffmann in The Count of Monte Cristo; he also translated The Nutcracker into French, which aided in making the tale popular and widespread.
• The exotic and supernatural elements in the storyline of Ingmar Bergman's 1982 film Fanny and Alexander derive largely from the stories of Hoffmann.
• Andrei Tarkovsky wrote a script entitled Hoffmaniana in which the writer himself is the main protagonist. Unfortunately, due to Tarkovsky's premature death, the film was never made.
• Freud gives an extensive psychoanalytic analysis of Hoffmann's Sandman in his 1919 essay Das Unheimliche.
• Coppelius is a German classical metal band, the name taken from Hoffmann's Sandman.
• The Russian show Kukly was closed by government officials after the episode where Vladimir Putin was portrayed as Hoffmann's Klein Zaches