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August 11, 2011 | History

Thomas Mann

6 June 1875 - 12 August 1955

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer.

His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers.

When Hitler came to power in 1933, the anti-fascist Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the most known exponents of the so called Exilliteratur. (Source)

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Subjects
Correspondence, Fiction, German Authors, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, German Novelists, In library, Democracy, German fiction, World War, 1939-1945, National socialism, Knowledge, Authors, Music, Politics and government, Music and literature, American Authors, Criticism and interpretation, Diaries, Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945, Nacionalsocialismo, Biography, German language, Swindlers and swindling, Translations into English
Places
Germany, Alemania, Europe, Prussia (Germany), Weimar (Thuringia), Foreign countries, France, Lubeck, Lubeck (Germany), Lübeck (Germany), Munich (Germany), Norddeutscher Bund (1866-1870), Spain, Venice (Italy)
People
Thomas Mann (1875-1955), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Heinrich Mann (1871-1950), Joseph (Son of Jacob), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Charlotte Buff Kestner (1753-1828), Erich Kahler (1885-1970), Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer (1887-), Alfred Neumann (1895-1952), Ida Boy-Ed (1852-1928), Käte Hamburger (1896-), Otto Grautoff (1876-1937), Käte Hamburger (1896-1992), Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Jacob (Biblical patriarch), Moses (Biblical leader), Theodor Storm (1817-1888), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Charlotte (Buff) Kestner (1753-1828), Charlotte Buff Kestner, Charlotte Buff Kestner (1735-1828), Frederick II King of Prussia (1712-1786), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Time
20th century, 1918-1933, 19th century, 1740-1806, 1740-1815, 1789-1900, 18th century, 1918-1945, 1712-1786, 1914-, 1914-1918, 1933-1945, 1938-, 1945-1955, Civil War, 1936-1939, Revolution, 1848-1849

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  • Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.

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August 11, 2011 Edited by Ludovicus merge authors
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May 14, 2010 Edited by Lance Arthur Add bio, correct dates
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import