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You guys, c'mon! Mann was arguably the most influential German writer of the 20th century. Even here in dead-eyed America, he and his family were once so ubiquitous that "daughter of Thomas Mann ...
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, Thomas Mann’s agonized 500-page tract on the rights and wrongs of World War I, appeared in September 1918, just weeks before the war ended in a German defeat. In the ...
In March 1938, novelist and author Thomas Mann — exiled from his home country Germany — visited Northwestern as the first stop of a nationwide lecture tour about the dangers of fascism ...
When legendary German writer Thomas Mann's former home in the Pacific Palisades came up for sale in August, German intellectuals and literary scholars—fearing the home's demolition—called on ...
Frido Mann, from left, with German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife, Elke Büdenbender, at the opening ceremony of the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, California, June 2018 ...
The home where Nobel Prize-winning author and German national treasure Thomas Mann lived in Los Angeles after fleeing from the Nazi regime has been snapped up by the German government to protect ...
German is again spoken in the corridors of the home, which the émigré architect J. R. Davidson designed to Mann’s specifications, and which the author occupied from 1942 to 1952.
One of the lingering mysteries about the German writer Thomas Mann is how there could have been any lingering mystery about his repressed –make that sublimated– sexual desire for beautiful young men.
Thomas Mann is the German Nobel Prize-winning author of Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus. (Carl Van Vechten/Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress) ...