Free City of Lübeck
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The Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck was a German city-state from 1226 to 1937, in what is now the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Flag and view of Lübeck on a 1909 cigarette card
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 nov
Free City of Lübeck
…Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723), German-British court painter Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Wilhelm Mohnke (1911–2001), Brigadeführer in the Waffen-SS…
Mann in 1929
House of the Mann family in Lübeck (Buddenbrookhaus), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum
The family lived in this villa in Munich from 1914 to 1933. Partially destroyed in World War II, it was later reconstructed.
The family country house in Bad Tölz, Bavaria