US EditionA Voice for Democracy: Thomas Mann's Lasting Literary Legacy
- Thomas Mann, a German writer born on June 6, 1875, won the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel Buddenbrooks.
- Mann supported democratization after World War I and publicly opposed the Nazi rise, leaving Germany during a 1933 lecture tour.
- He settled in Switzerland, emigrated to the US in 1939 after Nazi persecution, and delivered over 60 broadcasts denouncing the Holocaust and calling for resistance.
- In 1945, Mann's letter Why I will not return to Germany held all Germans responsible for Nazi crimes, and the US labeled him a suspected communist.
- After leaving America in 1952, Mann returned to Switzerland where he died in 1955, leaving a legacy as a steadfast critic of fascism and a cultural icon.
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On 6 June, Thomas Mann, born in 1875, would celebrate his 150th birthday. 70 years after his death, he is still widely read worldwide. Four declarations of love from the Feuilleton editorial staff.
When 150 years after the birth of the author of 'Death in Venice' and 'The Magic Mountain', Nordic publishes 'Summary of My Life', an autobiographical text he wrote shortly after the award of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureBack to the bookshops 'House of Leaves', the work of metaphysical terror sold second hand up to 1,750 euros Thomas Mann (Lübeck, 1875 - Zurich, 1955) used to say that the round years marked his life: he finished writing his firs…
Two great artists coincided in the year of his birth, and they are celebrated in 2025 one hundred and fifty years. But their lives spread by divergent routes; Maurice Ravel was a great composer admired for his innovations in the field of impressionism; Thomas Mann stood out as a proseist of tales and important novels. Both went through the most remarkable times of belle époque, both in its artistic manifestations and in the mentality that predom…
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of “The Magician.” That’s what the children called their father, Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955). I live in the city where the Nobel Prize-winning writer spent almost half of his... The article 150 years since the birth of “The Magician” first appeared in The Fifth Power.
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