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Thomas Mann
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 modern versions of German and Biblical stories,…
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Born 6 June 1875 · Died 12 August 1955 · Q37030
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2026· 15 entries
Yahoo Sports: Tre Mann and Cam Whitmore Swapped in Multi Team Trade
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Sports Illustrated: Cavs Trade Tre Mann in Larger Package Surrounding Peyton Watson and Max Strus
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Delfino.cr: Entre Esopo y Thomas Mann: cuando el discurso deja de gobernar
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instyle.com: Anna Faris, Leslie Mann, and Isla Fisher Wear Nothing but Bathrobes as They Casually Ride Around New York City
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CBS News: Party in the Park at Highmark Mann Center
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BroadwayWorld: Leslie Mann Talks SPA WEEKEND, Meeting Pope Leo XIV and Daughter Maude's New Film
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graziadaily.co.uk: 'You get sucked in the wellness vortex': Leslie Mann talks marriage, midlife, and parenting
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armstrongteasdale.com: Monte Mann on Fox News: Meta social media addiction trial begins with Zuckerberg to testify Monte L. Mann
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Cinema Daily US: FATHERLAND | Official Trailer | Only in Theaters October 23 : Thomas Mann and Erika Mann Story
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Diari ARA: Muntsa Alcañiz: "Así como la Biblia me decepcionó, recomiendo leer Thomas Mann"
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The Guardian: Edgier than the TV series, Michael Mann’s take on Miami Vice is gritty and intoxicating
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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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Public attention spiked: 4,323 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 1,334, with 0 article edits.
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As was Ritchie Robertson's translation of Doctor Faustus and Mike Mitchell's translation of The Buddenbrooks
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Master of Contradictions by Morten Høi Jensen review – how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain
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2024· 1 entry
Susan Bernofsky was reported to be working on a translation of The Magic Mountain, as was Simon Pare
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Magician by Colm Tóibín review – a difficult Mann to know
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The Guardian: The Magician by Colm Tóibín review – inside the mind of Thomas Mann
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2017· 1 entry
By the five houses Buddenbrookhaus/Heinrich-und-Thomas-Mann-Zentrum (Lübeck), the Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus (Munich), the Thomas Mann Archive of the ETH Zurich (Zurich/Switzerland), the Thomas Mann House (Los Angeles/
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1988· 1 entry
As "Death in Venice and Other Stories" with the addition of the eponymous story
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1975· 1 entry
When Mann's diaries were published, creating a national sensation in Germany, the retired Westermeier was tracked down in the United States: he was flattered to learn he had been the object of Mann's obsession, but also
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1961· 1 entry
As The Story of a Novel: The Genesis of Doctor Faustus
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1955· 31 entries
Died 1955-08-12.
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Awarded honorary citizen of Lübeck (1955).
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“Das ist dem Menschen erlaubt und gegeben, daß er sich der Wirklichkeit bediene zur Anschauung der Wahrheit. (niem.)”
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“Człowiek dąży nie do otrzeźwienia, lecz do upojenia i do pragnień, bojąc się najwięcej rozczarowań, a więc utraty złudzeń.”
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“Denn eine solche läßt uns aufhorchen auf alles, was nicht ganz still darin ist, und worin die Stille im Traume redet, wir aber hören es auch wie im Traum. (niem.)”
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“Przeznaczeniem ludzi jest, by w urojeniu i zróżnicowaniu tego życia wchodzili sobie w drogę, toteż daremnie lepsi spośród nich tęsknią do takiej egzystencji, w której śmiech jednego nie byłby płaczem dla drugiego.”
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“(…) chwilami rozkoszować się pewnego rodzaju wyższością nad samym sobą i czymś jakby obojętnością. Gdyż obojętność (…) byłaby rodzajem szczęścia”
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“I have read your book and its terrible documentation with deepest emotion. I cannot describe the mixed feeling of abhorrence and loathing which has filled my heart while perusing these records of human degradation and abominable cruelty. . . . To keep quiet would serve only the moral indifference of the world . . . You have done your duty in publishing this book and bringing these facts to light.”
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“Bryła nigdy nie bierze strony mistrza, lecz jest przeciw niemu i od początku wszystko, co zmierza do jej uformowania, wydaje się jej ze wszech miar nienaturalne.”
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“Only indifference is free. What is distinctive is never free, it is stamped with its own seal, conditioned and chained.”
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“Artysta podobny jest księciu, ponieważ podobnie jak on wiedzie żywot reprezentacyjny.”
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“It is not good when people no longer believe in war. Pretty soon they no longer believe in many other things which they absolutely must believe in if they are to be decent men.”
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“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
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“Wiem, że emigrant niewiele w Niemczech znaczy.”
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“Moje czasy były pełne odmian, ale moje życie w nich stanowi jedność. Ład, z jakim trwa w liczbowym stosunku do nich, sprawia mi satysfakcję, podobnie jak wszelki ład czy wszelka harmonia.”
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“If Goethe claimed towards the end of his life that every reasonable person is a moderate Liberal, then in our time one must say: Every reasonable person is a moderate Socialist.”
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“Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.”
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“Politics has been called the “art of the possible,” and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.”
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“Zaciszność i to, że tu w tej ciszy tak wiele jest do podsłuchania, to właśnie świadczy o tym, że wszystko bez ustanku w niej wiruje, a ten cały przez ciebie odczuwany spokój jest złudzeniem.”
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“An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.”
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“W rzeczywistości bowiem głowa stanowi o postaci, a również o wartości ciała jako obiektu miłosnego.”
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“What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.”
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“To, co pęta, wyzwala jednocześnie, a natchnienie jest czynnikiem łączącym zmysłowe piękno z duchem.”
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“It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.”
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“Świat ten nie został tak stworzony, aby przeznaczeniem ducha była wyłącznie miłość do tego, co duchowe, a piękna – do tego, co jest piękne. Istniejące pomiędzy tymi dwoma czynnikami przeciwieństwo pozwala z wyrazistością równie piękną jak duchową poznać cel świata, polegający na zespoleniu czynnika duchowego z czynnikiem piękna.”
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“Świat samotników jest bowiem takim samym światem jak każdy inny; jest dobrze znany tym, którzy doń należą, jest światem wielu plotek, krytyki, zazdrości, ciekawości, żądzy rywalizowania.”
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“The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.”
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“Każda istota ma podwójny byt: jeden dla siebie, a dla oczu innych – drugi. Ona istnieje oraz jest widzialna – jest duszą i obrazem, i zawsze popełniamy grzech, jeżeli ulegamy wrażeniu czysto wzrokowemu, a wcale nie troszczymy się o duszę.”
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“Istnieje bowiem nie tylko prawda i poznanie rozumowe, lecz także analogiczny pogląd poprzez ludzkie serce. Pogląd taki potrafi zgłębić mowę zjawisk nie tylko w ich pierwotnym i realnym sensie, lecz również w sensie innym, wyższym, używając ich do przeniknięcia spraw świetlanych i duchowych.”
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“Istnieją dwa rodzaje piękna: piękno duchowe oraz oddziaływające na same tylko zmysły. Niektórzy chcą jednak koniecznie to, co piękne, umieścić całkowicie w świecie zmysłów, wyodrębniając z niego w sposób zasadniczy wszelki duchowy czynnik, tak aby świat został rozszczepiony na dwa przeciwne elementy: duch i piękno.”
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“Die Askese ist ein Faß ohne Boden, ein unergründlich Ding, weil sich die Versuchungen des Geistes darin mit den sinnlichen Versuchungen vermischen, und ein Stück Arbeit ist es damit wie mit der Schlange, der zwei Köpfe nachwachsen, wenn man ihr einen abschlägt. (niem.)”
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1954· 2 entries
His daughter Erika scoffed: "Since he (Heuser) couldn't have the magician (= Thomas Mann's nickname with his children), he preferred to give it up completely
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(which later his widow and then their son Golo lived in until their deaths)
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1952· 2 entries
Awarded Feltrinelli Prize (1952).
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Returned to Europe, to live in Kilchberg, near Zürich, Switzerland
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1950· 1 entry
Mann met the 19-year-old waiter Franz Westermeier, confiding to his diary "Once again this, once again love"
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (1949).
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At the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, attending celebrations in Frankfurt am Main (then West Germany) and Weimar (then East Germany), as a statement that German culture extended beyond the new political bo
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1948· 1 entry
A love-story between small-town American boys and a portrait of homosexual life in New York and Hollywood in the forties, a highly controversial book even among the publishers, not to mention the press, he sent a copy to
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1942· 1 entry
The Mann family moved to 1550 San Remo Drive in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California
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1941· 1 entry
Was designated consultant in German Literature, later Fellow in Germanic Literature, at the Library of Congress
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1939· 2 entries
Moved to the United States, returning to Switzerland after the war in 1952
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Following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Mann emigrated to the United States, while his in-laws only managed, thanks to high-ranking connections, to leave Germany for Zurich in October 1939
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1936· 1 entry
The Nazi government officially revoked his German citizenship
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1933· 1 entry
Mann and his wife were on holiday in Switzerland
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (1932).
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1930· 1 entry
Gave a public address in Berlin titled An Appeal to Reason, in which he strongly denounced Nazism and encouraged resistance by the working class
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1929· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — principally for his great novel, <I>Buddenbrooks</I>, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for Buddenbrooks (1929).
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After he had been nominated by Anders Österling, member of the Swedish Academy, principally in recognition of his popular achievements with Buddenbrooks (1901), The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg, 1924), and his numerous
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1927· 1 entry
While on summer vacation in Kampen (Sylt), the 52-year-old Mann fell in love with 17-year-old Klaus Heuser, to whom he dedicated the introduction to his essay "Kleist's Amphitryon, a Reconquest" in the fall of the same y
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1924· 2 entries
“in Ch. 1 A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. Ch. 2, “At Tienappels’,”
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Improved his financial situation again, as did the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929
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1922· 2 entries
1912: Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)
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To abolish Section 175 of the German Criminal Code, under which many homosexuals were imprisoned simply because of their inclinations, Thomas Mann also signed
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1921· 1 entry
Wrote an essay Mind and Money in which he made a very open assessment of his family background: "In any case, I am personally indebted to the capitalist world order from the past, which is why it will never be appropr
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1917· 1 entry
To subscribe to war bonds, which lost their face value after the war was lost
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1914· 1 entry
Also purchased a villa in Munich (at Poschinger Str in the borough of Bogenhausen, today 10 Thomas-Mann-Allee) where they lived until 1933
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1912· 1 entry
Katia was treated for what was incorrectly diagnosed as tuberculosis for a few months in a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, where Thomas Mann visited her for a few weeks
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1911· 1 entry
Mann had stayed at the Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Venice Lido with his wife and brother, when he became enraptured by the angelic figure of Władysław (Władzio) Moes, a 10-year-old Polish boy (the real Tadzio)
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1908· 1 entry
On which they built a country house the following year, which they kept until 1917
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1905· 1 entry
Mann married Katia Pringsheim, who came from a wealthy, secular Jewish industrialist family
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1902· 1 entry
George had met the 14-year-old boy Maximilian Kronberger; he made an idol of him and after his early death in 1904 transfigured him into a kind of Antinous-style "god"
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1898· 1 entry
Had a particular stylistic influence on Thomas Mann
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1891· 1 entry
And after that his trading firm was liquidated
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1875· 1 entry
Born 1875-06-06.
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