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Image: Stefan Nagel For ETA Hoffmann (1776-1822) exercised the obvious attractions of the fairs a great fascination. The description of the tricks of the charges of a "Flea Tamer" in the "Master Flea" (1822) shows that it is "Flohcircusse" though not under that name, at the beginning of the 19th Century was.
interesting are the statements about wax museum in "Automatic" in 1814. The story shows that even at that time in panoptically "murderer" and "rogues" were displayed for the institution probably has always conveyed an eerie atmosphere.
Hoffmann was especially taken by machines, not so much by the "dalliances, as are most often shown at fairs and carnivals" (The Automatic), large than on the amazing art works mechanic. The machines
topic comes up again and again, including of course in Sandmann. In this fascinating and troubling story is about "love" of the student Nathanael to "Auto Matin Olimpia.
The artificial people in ETA Hoffmann were and are a popular subject for literary papers, including authors with Marxist starting points. (Example Lienhard Wawrzyn. The machine-human ETA Hoffmann's story of the Sandman Berlin 1985.) Seem to me These kinds of interpretations in spite of dogmatic approaches not entirely absurd. The machine man is the "bourgeois", "alienated", just "artificial" person with a limited understanding of "reality" or a limited view of the world:
"Oh, this enchanting to disenchant, these lovable validating the love, they're ghosts, and yet everyday nature, long-legged and with lashes of prostheses, and of course physically perfect, and of course informed .- No professional feminists that makes the preference as well as the disadvantage of her appeal. You are the creator of longing for something that they are inherently not after, the fact they represent (...) a train not only the bourgeoisie. - Ideal incarnations of practical reason, but we think it over, is their queen Olimpia. - The Society of the programmed. - Yes not the car Matin is dreadful, but that a love to distraction with her.
course: He needs glasses to a special "
. (Franz Fühmann. Fräulein Veronika Paul man from the suburb of Pirna, or something about looking at ETA Hoffmann, Munich 1984, p.104)
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