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Thomas Mann

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Date of birth
1875-06-06
Place of birth
Lübeck
Date of death
1955-08-12
Place of death
Zurich

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Paul Thomas Mann (UK: MAN, US: MAHN; German pronunciation: [ˈtoːmas ˈman] ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are 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 versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.

Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of Mann's six children – Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann – also became significant German writers. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, then returned to Switzerland in 1952. Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur, German literature written in exile by those who opposed the Hitler regime.

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German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

He wrote the tetralogy Joseph und seine Brüder (Joseph and His Brothers).

Last modified: 2020-08-09 (revision #19360)

Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem FreundePaperback3-596-29428-21990-04
Der ZauberbergHardcover978-3-10-348128-02005-10
Bashan and IeBook?2020-09-07
Erzählungen (Thomas Mann)Paperback?1975
Joseph und seine Brüder: Die Geschichten JaakobsPaperback3-596-29435-51991-05
Tonio Kröger / Mario und der ZaubererPaperback3-596-21381-91989-06
Der Tod in Venedig und andere Erzählungen (Fischer Taschenbuch 54, movie cover)Paperback3-436-00065-51976-07
Buddenbrooks: Verfall eine FamiliePaperback3-596-20661-81989-04
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull: Der Memoiren erster Teil (Fischer pb 639)Paperback3-596-20639-11981-05
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull: Der Memoiren erster Teil (club edition)Hardcover??
Joseph und seine Brüder: Joseph, der ErnährerPaperback3-596-29438-X2002-01
Joseph und seine Brüder 1: Die Geschichten Jaakobs / Der junge JosephPaperback3-596-21183-21990-03
Der Tod in Venedig und andere Erzählungen (Fischer Bücherei 54)Paperback?1966-04
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Goodreads Author ID
19405
ISNI
0000 0001 2133 3953
LibraryThing Author
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OpenLibrary Author ID
OL22973A
VIAF
54151065
Wikidata ID
Q37030

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