Thomas Mann

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Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 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 have been praised for providing insight into the artist's psychology and the intellectual.

His research and analysis of the German and German souls, as well as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer's theories, were used in modernized German and Biblical stories. In his first book, Buddenbrooks, Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and depicted his family and class.

Heinrich Mann's older brother, a novelist, and three of Mann's six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann, and Golo Mann, all became well-known German writers.

Mann fled to Switzerland when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933.

After World War II broke out in 1939, he travelled to the United States and then returned to Switzerland in 1952.

Mann is one of the most well-known exilliterature, German literature written in exile by those opposed to the Hitler regime. Mann's book inspired many writers, including Heinrich Böll, Joseph Heller, Yukio Mishima, and Orhan Pamuk.

Life

Paul Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck, Germany, the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a politician and a grain merchant) and his partner, Jlia da Silva Bruhns, immigrated to Germany with her family when she was seven years old. Mann's mother was Roman Catholic, but he was baptized into his father's Lutheran faith. Mann's father died in 1891, and his brokerage company was liquidated after that. The family then migrated to Munich, Germany. Mann began studying science at a Lübeck University (secondary school), then attended the Ludwig Maximillians University of Munich, Munich, where, in preparation for a journalism career, he researched history, economics, art history, and literature.

Mann lived in Munich from 1891 to 1933, with the exception of a year in Palestrina, Italy, with his elder brother, the novelist Heinrich. Thomas worked at the South German Fire Insurance Company from 1894 to 1995. Simplicissimus, a writer, started writing for the journal Simplicissimus. "Little Mr Friedemann" (Der Kleine Herr Friedemann), Mann's first short story, was published in 1898.

Mann married Katia Pringsheim, who came from a wealthy, secular Jewish industrialist family, in 1905. She later became a member of the Lutheran Church of Ireland. The couple had six children.

He and his wife travelled to a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, 1912, which would inspire his 1924 book The Magic Mountain. Following the Agadir Crisis in Morocco and later, the outbreak of the First World War, he was also terrified by the prospect of international conflict between Germany and France.

Mann had a cottage built in Nidden, Memel Territory (now Nida, Lithuania), on the Curonian Spit, where a German art colony was active and where he spent the summers 1930--1932 working on Joseph and his Brothers. Today the cottage is a cultural center dedicated to him, with a small memorial exhibition.

Mann learned from his eldest children, Klaus and Erika in Munich, that returning to Germany would not be safe for him. The family (except these two children) migrated to Küsnacht, Switzerland, but in 1936, they obtained Czechoslovak citizenship and a passport. Following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, he immigrated to the United States in 1939. He moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where he lived on 65 Stockton Street and started to teach at Princeton University. The Mann family moved to San Remo Drive in Los Angeles, California, in 1942. The Manns were well-known members of the German expatriate community of Los Angeles, and they would regularly see other emigres at the Salka and Bertold Viertel in Santa Monica, as well as fellow German exile Lion Feuchtwanger's Villa Aurora. Thomas Mann was born in the United States on June 23rd, 1944. The Manns lived in Los Angeles until 1952.

Mann was prompted to deliver anti-Nazi speeches (in German) to the German people via the BBC following World War II's outbreak on September 1st. He began monthly broadcasts in the United States and then moved to London, where the BBC broadcast them to Germany on the longwave bandwagon in October 1940. Mann condemned Hitler and his "paladins" as crude philistines who are entirely out of touch with European history in these eight-minute addresses. "The war is horrific, but it has the benefit of stopping Hitler from making speeches about culture," he said in a quoted address.

Mann was one of the few vocal opponents of Nazism among German expatriates in the United States. Mann explained in a BBC broadcast of 30 December 1945 that those people who had suffered under the Nazi regime might embrace the theory of German collective guilt. However, he also believed that many rivals may now have second thoughts about "revenge." He expressed regret that such decision could not be based on the individual.

He had been increasingly irritated by growing McCarthyism at the start of the Cold War. As a "suspected communist," he was required to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he was described as "one of the world's best apologists for Stalin and company." He was described as being "affiliated with various peace groups or Communist fronts" by the United Nations International Accordance. Mann stated explicitly that he is a non-communist rather than an anti-communist." "I am a German citizen of German origins and can testify that I am acutely aware of such political trends. Spiritual intolerance, political intrusions, and weakening law enforcement were all present in the name of a suspected'state of emergency,' "That's how it started in Germany." Mann, who was attending marches against the death of schoolteachers accused of being Communists and the dismissal of teachers suspected of being Communists, discovered that "the media had been closed to him." He was eventually forced to resign as a Germanic Literature consultant at the Library of Congress, and in 1952, he returned to Europe to live in Kilchberg, Switzerland. Despite traveling to Germany, he never again lived in Germany. In 1949, during Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 200th birthday, he was in Frankfurt am Main and Weimar as a reminder that German culture reaches far beyond the new political boundaries.

Mann went on vacation to Noordwijk (the Netherlands) following his 80th birthday. He began experiencing pain and unilateral swelling in his left leg on July 18, 1955. Dr. Mulders of Leiden diagnosed thrombophlebitis and Dr. Wilhelm Löffler confirmed it. Mann was taken to a Zürich hospital, but he soon went into shock. He died on August 12, 1955. His illness was discovered to have been misdiagnosed at the time, according to a postmortem. Christoph Hedinger's pathologic diagnosis revealed that he had in fact developed a retroperitoneal aneurysm, compression, and thrombosis of the iliac vein. (At that time, lifesaving vascular surgery had not been invented.) Thomas Mann was buried in Village Cemetery, Kilchberg, Switzerland, on August 16, 1955.

Many later writers, such as Yukio Mishima, were influenced by Mann's work. Several organizations have been named in his name, for example, the Thomas Mann Gymnasium in Budapest.

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Career

H.L. Blanche Knopf's publishing house was introduced to Mann by H.L. On a book-buying trip to Europe, a mancken was seen. Knopf was Mann's American publisher, and Blanche hired scholar Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter to translate Mann's books in 1924. Mann's complete works were translated by Lowe-Porter later. Blanche Knopf continued to look after Mann. Buddenbrooks received an unexpected bonus after his first year. Blanche assisted Mann and his family in emigrating to America in the 1930s.

Mann received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 after being nominated by Anders sterling, a Swedish Academy member, chiefly in recognition of his popularity with the epic Buddenbrooks (1901), The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg, 1904), and his numerous short stories. (Due to an influential committee member's personal taste, only Buddenbrooks was cited at any length.) Buddenbrooks relates the demise of a merchant family in Lübeck over the course of four generations based on Mann's own family. The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg, 1924) follows an engineering student who was planning to visit his tubercular cousin at a Swiss sanatorium for a few weeks but who has had his departure from the sanatorium postponed. During this period, he confronts medicine and the way it looks at the body, as well as a variety of characters that play out political intrigues and dissatisfactions with modern European civilization. Joseph and His Brothers, an epic book set over a period of sixteen years, is one of Mann's most influential and important works. Later, Mann's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), in which Mann returned to the world of German culture in the years leading up to and during World War II; and Felix Krull's Confessions (Begretty des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, 1954), which was unfinished at Mann's death. Mann was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by two members of the Swedish Academy for the second time in 1948.

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