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Thomas Mann

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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German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

Born 6 June 1875
Died 12 August 1955

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  • Cover of: Nocturnes

    First published in 1934 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: On myself and other Princeton lectures

    First published in 1996 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Order of the day: political essays and speeches of two decades.
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    First published in 1942 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1960 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Schriften zur Politik.: (Ausgewählt von Walter Boehlich.)

    First published in 1970 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Tagebücher, 1953-1955

    First published in 1995 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Thamar

    First published in 1942 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: This peace: together with the address of November 9, 1938 in New York

    First published in 1938 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Death in Venice and other tales
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    First published in 1989 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: London After Midnight: A New Reconstruction Based on Contemporary Sources

    First published in 2016 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Death In Venice

    First published in 2013 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1947 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie : Roman

    First published in 1923 — 3 editions
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    First published in 2010 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: La guerra ya no está permitida: Escritos políticos y autobiográficos

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  • Cover of: Lotte in Weimar: roman
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  • Cover of: Handbuch der kommunalen Wissenschaft und Praxis: Band 5 Kommunale Wirtschaft

    First published in 2011 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Confessions of Felix Krull, confidence man: the early years
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German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

Born 6 June 1875
Died 12 August 1955

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Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Correspondence, German Authors, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, German Novelists, Biography, German language, German literature, Translations into English, History, Mann, thomas, 1875-1955, Democracy, Fiction, short stories (single author), German fiction, Readers, Diaries, German language materials, In literature, Political and social views, Bible, Germany, fiction, History of Biblical events, World War, 1914-1918

Places

Germany, Europe, Prussia (Germany), Venice (Italy), Germany (West), Lübeck (Germany), Munich (Germany), Spain, Weimar (Thuringia), Alabama, Alemania, Allemagne, Araby, Araby bazaar, Carthage, Davos, Foreign countries, France, Great Britain, Italy, Jefferson, Lubeck, Lubeck (Germany), Lübeck, Milan

People

Thomas Mann (1875-1955), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Joseph (Son of Jacob), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Jacob (Biblical patriarch), Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Moses (Biblical leader), Charlotte Buff (1753-1828), Charlotte Buff Kestner (1753-1828), Frederick II King of Prussia (1712-1786), Heinrich Mann (1871-1950), Paul Amann (1884-1958), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), René Schickele (1883-1940), Theodor Storm (1817-1888), Charlotte Buff Kestner (1735-1828), Erich Kahler (1885-1970), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946), Gottfried Bermann Fischer (1897-), H. T. Lowe-Porter (1876-1963), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Time

20th century, 1918-1933, 19th century, 1740-1806, 1740-1815, 1933-1945, 1789-1900, 1918-1945, 18th century, Civil War, 1936-1939, 1712-1786, 1861-65, 1914-, 1914-1918, 1938-, 1945-1955, Antebellum era, Revolution, 1848-1849, antiquity to mid-20th century

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Alternative names

  • Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.
  • Mann, Thomas Writer
  • Mann, Thomas Schriftsteller
  • Mann, Thomas Ecrivain
  • THOMAS MANN
  • Thomas MANN
  • Thomas mann
  • Thomas. Mann
  • thomas mann
  • Thomas Thomas Mann
  • Mann Thomas
  • Thomas 1875-1955 Mann
  • Thomas (1875-1955) Mann
  • Томас Манн
  • Т.Манн

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January 13, 2025 Edited by raybb Edited without comment.
June 27, 2023 Edited by Сергей Малышев Edited without comment.
April 25, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
July 30, 2021 Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten links
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import