The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

This article is about E. T. A. Hoffmann's story. For the ballet, see The Nutcracker.
"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"
Short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Title page with Hoffmann's own illustration in Kinder-Mährchen, 1816
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Original titleNussknacker und Mausekönig
IllustratorE. T. A. Hoffmann
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
GenreLiterary fairy tale
Publication
Published inKinder-Mährchen
Publication typeFairy tale collection
PublisherBuchhandlung der Realschule
Media typePrint
Publication date1816
Pages157

"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a literary fairy tale from 1816 by the German author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which a young girl's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. The story was originally published in Berlin in German as part of the collection Kinder-Mährchen ("children's stories").

In 1892, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas's adaptation of the story into the ballet The Nutcracker.

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