<P> `` The Nutcracker and the Mouse King '' ( German : Nussknacker und Mausekönig ) is a story written in 1816 by German author E.T.A. Hoffmann , in which young Marie Stahlbaum '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 . In 1892 , the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas père 's adaptation of the story into the ballet The Nutcracker . </P>
<P> `` The Nutcracker and the Mouse King '' ( German : Nussknacker und Mausekönig ) is a story written in 1816 by German author E.T.A. Hoffmann , in which young Marie Stahlbaum '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 . In 1892 , the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas père 's adaptation of the story into the ballet The Nutcracker . </P>
who wrote the original story of the nutcracker
who wrote the original story of the nutcracker
German author E.T.A. Hoffmann
German author E.T.A. Hoffmann