Thomas Mann
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Paul Thomas Mann (* June 6th, 1875 in Lübeck; † August 12th 1955 in Zürich) was a German author.
Mann was born in 1875 in Lübeck as son of an salesman and senator of the city of Lübeck, into a rich and conserative family. In 1891 his father died.
In 1894 Mann left school. He went to Munich, were his mother and his brothers and sister had been since 1893. He worked as an insurence salesman and wrote poems and prosa by the way.
In 1898 he published first works and began Die Buddenbrocks, published in 1901. In 1906 he married, although he wasn't clear about his sexual identity.
In the World War I Mann agreed with the war, but not enthusastic. In time of the Weimar Republic he defened democratic ideas. In 1929 he got the Nobel Prize for literature.
In 1933 the Nais burned books of his brother Heinrich Mann. So both and their family emigrated to the United States in 1934. He lost his German citizenship, but got the czeechoslovacian citizenship in the US. In 1944 he became US-citizen.
He worked for the Allies in the radio during the World War II. In 1952 he had to made his talk to the Committee on Un-American Activities. He was very disappointed on the United States and returnde to Europe, to Switzerland, in 1953.
IIn the 1950's he visited Germany sometimes. He died in Zürich, Switzerland.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- Buddenbrooks - Verfall einer Familie (1901)
- Königliche Hoheit (1909)
- Der Zauberberg (1924)
- Joseph und seine Brüder – Tetralogie (1933-1943)
- Die Geschichten Jaakobs (1933)
- Der junge Joseph (1934)
- Joseph in Ägypten (1936)
- Joseph der Ernährer (1943)
- Lotte in Weimar (1939)
- Doktor Faustus (1947)
- Der Erwählte (1951)
- Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1954)
[edit] Short stories and short novels
- Vision. Prosa-Skizze, 1893
- Gefallen, 1894
- Der Wille zum Glück, 1896
- Enttäuschung, 1896
- Der Tod, 1897
- Der kleine Herr Friedemann, 1897
- Der Bajazzo, 1897
- Tobias Mindernickel, 1898
- Der Kleiderschrank, 1899
- Gerächt. Novellistische Studie, 1899
- Luischen, 1900
- Der Weg zum Friedhof, 1900
- Gladius Dei, Novelle 1902
- Tonio Kröger, Novelle 1903
- Tristan, Novelle 1903
- Die Hungernden, 1903
- Das Wunderkind, 1903
- Ein Glück, 1904
- Beim Propheten, 1904
- Schwere Stunde, 1905
- Anekdote, 1908
- Das Eisenbahnunglück, 1909
- Wie Jappe und Do Escobar sich prügelten, 1911
- Der Tod in Venedig, 1912
- Herr und Hund. Ein Idyll, 1918
- Gesang vom Kindchen. Ein Idyll, 1919
- Wälsungenblut, 1921
- Unordnung und frühes Leid, 1926
- Mario und der Zauberer, 1930
- Die vertauschten Köpfe - Eine indische Legende, 1940
- Das Gesetz, 1944
- Die Betrogene, 1953
[edit] Dramas
- Fiorenza
[edit] Essays
- Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen, 1918
- Das Problem der Freiheit, 1937
- Versuch über Schiller, 1955
- Über Goethe
[edit] Weblinks
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