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
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
Erika Mann
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Erika Julia Hedwig Mann was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann.
Thomas Mann
…also wrote short stories and novellas, including Death in Venice (1912). His older brother was novelist Heinrich Mann. Three of Mann's six children – Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann – also became significant German writers. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War…
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