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4 unusual facts about Thomas Mann


Bernhard Rust

Erika Mann, the daughter of Thomas Mann, wrote an exposé of the Rust system in 1938 entitled School for Barbarians, followed in 1941 by Gregor Ziemer's Education for Death.

German Shorthaired Pointer

Thomas Mann's great love for his German Shorthaired is told in the book Bashan and I.

The River Why

In 2002, Sierra Club Books released a 20th Anniversary Edition that includes a new afterword by the author describing Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks influence on him at the age of 16 and how this led him to a life of literature.

Thomas Mann

:Alan Bennett's play The Habit of Art, in which Benjamin Britten visits W. H. Auden to discuss the possibility of Auden writing the libretto for Britten's opera version of Death in Venice.


Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco

Other major literary influences included the Greek Classics, Balzac, Dostoievski, Thomas Mann, Will Durant and Arnold Toynbee.

András Beck

From the 1930s he became well known for his expressionist sculpture, creating plaquettes of Árpád Tóth, Bartók, Móricz, and Thomas Mann.

Charles Francis Potter

His progressive ideas led him to found, in 1929, the First Humanist Society of New York, whose advisory board included Julian Huxley, John Dewey, Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann.

Christiaan Tonnis

In 1986, he started to paint landscapes from literature like the "Magic Mountain (after Thomas Mann)" and portraits of writers and philosophers.

Edith Södergran

Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain, which admittedly was written after the war but is set in a sanatorium during these years gives a picture of the intellectually lively atmosphere.

Evelyn Juers

Their story is crossed by others from their circle, Heinrich's brother Thomas Mann, his sister Carla, friends Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, Joseph Roth and Kurt Tucholsky, and beyond them, the writers Egon Kisch and Else Lasker-Schüler, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Virginia Woolf and Nettie Palmer among others.

Gerhart Hauptmann

Thomas Mann met Hauptmann at an Alpine resort and wrote to his brother, "I hobnob every evening with Hauptmann, who is a really good fellow." He used Hauptmann as the model (especially physically) for the character Mynheer Peeperkorn in The Magic Mountain.

Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

He was professor in the Universities of Chicago and California until the end of World War II, making friends with Thomas Mann and marrying his youngest daughter Elisabeth with whom he had two daughters, Angelica and Dominica.

Herbert Eulenberg

He was “sympathizer” of “Die Maler des Jungen Rheinlands”, the painters of the young Rhineland, and was in contact with personalities such as Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Frank Wedekind, Gerhart Hauptmann, Lulu von Strauß und Torney, Felix Hollaender, Else Lasker-Schüler, Erich Mühsam, Peter Hille, John Henry Mackay, Herwarth Walden, Emil Ludwig, Franz Werfel, Wilhelm Schmidtbonn, and others.

J. J. Lynx

When it was finally published in mid-1945, it included an introduction by Thomas Mann, "A Message" from Edvard Beneš, and a dozen essays by contributors both Jewish and Gentile.

Joachim Neugroschel

Neugroschel translated more than 200 books of numerous authors, including Sholem Aleichem, Bergelson, Chekhov, Dumas, Hesse, Kafka, Mann, Moliere, Maupassant, Proust, Schweitzer, Singer and modern writers such as Ernst Jünger, Elfriede Jelinek and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

Leitmotif

Leitmotifs is also said to be present in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; and also in the works of Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Thomas Mann, Chuck Palahniuk, and Julian Barnes.

Lisbeth Lynghøft

She started and for five years was artistic leader and director of the ensemble Teatret Bag Døren, based in Copenhagen, staging such productions as Arthur Kopit's Wings, Heinrich Mann's The Blue Angel and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.

Mabel Tylecote

She was on the (Manchester) Committee of the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain, founded by published by German and Austrian refugee organisations and supportive British groups, including Albert Einstein, the artist Oskar Kokoschka, writer Thomas Mann and actress Sybil Thorndike.

Michael Maar

For his 1995 doctoral dissertation on Thomas Mann, titled Geister und Kunst, he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.

Mobius Dick

Interweaving tales re-write the historical stories of Robert Schumann's stay in similar clinic in Endenich and Schrödinger's visit to the Alpine sanatorium of Arosa, both of which echo the situation in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.

Paulo Barrozo

From an early age, Barrozo was exposed to the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and to the literature of Machado d Assis, Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Simone de Beauvoir, and Thomas Mann.

Pester Lloyd

Over the years it was prominent enough to attract such internationally famous contributors as Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Alfred Polgar, Ferenc Molnár, Dezső Kosztolányi, Egon Erwin Kisch, Bertha von Suttner, Franz Werfel and Felix Salten.

Philippe Jaccottet

He has translated numerous authors and poets into French, including Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Mandelstam, Góngora, Leopardi, Musil, Rilke, Homer and Ungaretti.

Rhadamanthus

In Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain Herr Settembrini refers to the Director Behrens of the sanatorium as Rhadamanthus.

Sharon Tal

She returned to Israels and participated in "Vows", based on Thomas Mann's "Fiorenza" and "Joseph and His Brothers", in which she played the role of the biblical Rachel.

Throw out the baby with the bath water

It is a common catchphrase in German, with examples of its use in work by Martin Luther, Johannes Kepler, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Otto von Bismarck, Thomas Mann and Günter Grass.

Tobias Hill

Tobias Hill was born in Kentish Town, in North London, to parents of German Jewish and English extraction: his maternal grandfather was the brother of Gottfried Bermann, confidant of Thomas Mann and, as owner of S. Fischer Verlag, German literature's leading publisher-in-exile during the Second World War.


see also

Andrew Talcott

In his later years, along with his son, Thomas Mann Randolph Talcott, Talcott invested in development in Bon Air, VA.

Lotte in Weimar

Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns, a 1939 novel by Nobel prize winning German writer Thomas Mann

Pringsheim

Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941), mathematician, father-in-law of writer Thomas Mann