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Erika Mann
Erika Julia Hedwig Mann was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann.
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Born 9 November 1905 · Died 27 August 1969 · Q61597
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | Raymond Pierrehumbert, Julia Slingo, Michael Mann and Valerie Masson-Delmotte
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1969· 1 entry
Died 1969-08-27.
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1952· 1 entry
Due to the anti-communist red scare and the numerous accusations from the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Mann family left the US and she moved back to Switzerland with her parents
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1949· 1 entry
Becoming increasingly depressed and disillusioned over postwar Germany's occupation, Klaus Mann died by suicide
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1938· 1 entry
Mann and Klaus reported on the Spanish Civil War, and her book School for Barbarians, a critique of Nazi Germany's educational system, was published
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1937· 1 entry
Mann moved to New York, where Die Pfeffermühle (as The Peppermill) opened its doors again
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1936· 3 entries
Her brother Klaus wrote the book Mephisto, whose main character was loosely based on Gründgens, posed as a man who sold his soul to the devil, (the Nazis)
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Auden introduced Therese Giehse, Mann's lover, to the writer John Hampson and they too married so that Giehse could leave Germany
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Die Pfeffermühle opened again in Zürich and became a rallying point for German exiles
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1935· 1 entry
It became apparent that the Nazis were intending to strip Mann of her German citizenship; her uncle, Heinrich Mann, was the first person to be stripped of German citizenship when the Nazis took office
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1933· 1 entry
Moved to Switzerland, and married the poet W
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1932· 3 entries
Mann had a role, alongside Therese Giehse, in the film Peter Voss, Thief of Millions
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Published Stoffel fliegt übers Meer, the first of seven children's books
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Erika Mann was denounced by the Brownshirts after she read a pacifist poem to an anti-war meeting
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1927· 1 entry
Erika and Klaus undertook a trip around the world, which they documented in their book Rundherum; Das Abenteuer einer Weltreise
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1925· 1 entry
Played in the première of her brother Klaus's play Anja und Esther
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1924· 3 entries
Passed the Abitur, albeit with poor marks, and began her theatrical studies in Berlin that were again interrupted, because of her numerous engagements in Hamburg, Munich, Berlin and elsewhere
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The actor Gustaf Gründgens had offered to direct the production and play one of the lead male roles, alongside Klaus, with Erika and Pamela Wedekind as the female leads
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Erika Mann began theater studies in Berlin and acted there and in Bremen
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1914· 1 entry
The Mann family obtained a villa on 1 Poschingerstraße in Bogenhausen, which in the family would come to be known as "Poschi
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1905· 1 entry
Born 1905-11-09.
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