Erika Mann
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Erika Julia Hedwig Mann was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann.
Mann c. 1938
Female war correspondents in 1944, with Erika Mann on the far right and Betty Knox third from right
Gravestone of Erika Mann in Kilchberg
Thomas Mann
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Paul Thomas Mann 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 in 1929
House of the Mann family in Lübeck ("Buddenbrookhaus"), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum
Mann's summer cottage in Nidden, East Prussia (now Nida, Lithuania), now a memorial museum
The grave of Thomas, Katia, Erika, Monika, Michael, and Elisabeth Mann, in Kilchberg, Switzerland