Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
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INTRODUCTION
Thomas Mann was born on June 6, 1875 in Lübeck. His father was a prosperous grain merchant and a prominent figure in the city. (Also see Photos of Lübeck and the Buddenbrookhaus there.) When his father died in 1891, Thomas's mother moved to Munich with his three younger sisters. Thomas and his older brother Heinrich also soon left the north German town where they had grown up. Both would later become noted authors.
Thomas Mann's first great literary success was the novel Buddenbrooks (1901), for which he would later receive a Nobel Prize (1929). In 1905 Mann married Katia Pringsheim. Out of that union came six children, three of them also became writers (Erika, Klaus and Golo Mann). After the Nazis came to power in Germany, Mann took his family to America. Except for a few visits to his homeland after 1945, Mann remained in the U.S. until leaving California in 1952 after being labeled a communist "fellow traveler" during the red scare era. He moved to Switzerland, where he died in 1955. Thomas Mann's works include:
- Buddenbrooks / Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie (1901)
- Tonio Kröger (1903)
- Royal Highness / Königliche Hoheit (1909)
- Death in Venice / Der Tod in Venedig (1912)
- A Man and His Dog / Herr und Hund (1919)
- The Magic Mountain / Der Zauberberg (1924)
- Joseph and His Bothers / Joseph und seine Brüder (1933-43)
- Doctor Faustus / Doktor Faustus (1947)
- Confessions of the Confidence Man Felix Krull / Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1954)
Also see Photos of Lübeck showing Mann's hometown today and the Buddenbrookhaus.
Thomas Mann Books
Buddenbrooks
by Thomas Mann
Mann's partially autobiographical novel, subtitled "The Decline of a Family," won a Nobel prize for literature in 1929. Paperback. ISBN: 0679752609
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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
by Thomas Mann
Knopf. Paperback.
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Death in Venice and A Man and His Dog
by Thomas Mann (S. Applebaum, transl.)
A dual-language edition with German and English versions of these two works by Thomas Mann. Dover. Paperback. > Compare Prices for this book.
Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949
by Heinrich and Thomas Mann
Univ. of California Press. Hardcover.
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Thomas Mann on the Web
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) - DHM
Biografie von dem deutschen Autor. Vom Deutschen Historischen Museum.
Heinrich Mann (1871-1950)
Biografie von dem deutschen Autor. Vom Deutschen Historischen Museum.
Thomas Mann
An overview in German from Case Western Reserve University.
Buddenbrookhaus
The former Mann residence in Lübeck is now the Heinrich and Thomas Mann Center.
Thomas Mann
An overview in English from the Finnish "Books and Writers" site.
Thomas Mann
Die Thomas-Mann-Sammlung, Links und Archive von der Uni Düsseldorf.
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Photo Gallery - Lübeck
Photos of Mann's hometown today and the Buddenbrookhaus.
Heinrich Mann
Thomas Mann's older brother.
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