ETA Hoffmann wrote his romantic fairy tale “The Strange Child” in 1817, “for children big and small”, as he put it. Today it is considered a master story, with which he laid the foundation for the literary motif of the strange child. In the story, this small, mysterious creature meets a pair of siblings in the forest. The Secession Verlag has now re-released this story as a multimedia synthesis of the arts. Bulgarian artist Katina Peeva drew the enchanting illustrations, and the book comes with a QR code to enjoy compositions to the text. The music is based on Hoffmann’s own composition, the Quintet for Harp in D minor. The project was supported by the opera singer Ina Kancheva, who has been involved with her own foundation for “music in books” for years.
ETA Hoffmann’s fairy tale “The Strange Child” as a total work of art – Munich
