For a Long Time Thomas Mann Hesitated Until He Confessed to Emigration Under the Pressure of His Daughter

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Lean Right

Factuality

Ownership

After Hitler's seizure of power, the writer had left Germany, but he avoided publicly committing himself to emigration. At the beginning of 1936, the situation changed abruptly.

wdr.de

Factuality

Ownership

Thomas Mann's family remains fascinated to this day. Closers reveal a multi-layered portrait of fame, strangers and familial abysses. Heinrich Breloer and Horst Königstein immerse themselves in the moving fate of the Mann family. In conversations with Mann's youngest daughter Elisabeth, Golo and Monika Mann, and using documents with Erika and Katia Mann, a touching portrait of splendor and inner breakage emerges. Thomas Mann draws ever closer to…

Unidivers

Factuality

Ownership

World-renowned for his masterpieces, Les Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) remains one of the great tutelary figures of 20th century European literature and thought. Exiled in the face of Nazism, Nobel Prize for Literature, writer with a disturbing lucidity, Mann embodies this Europe torn between humanist greatness and destructive temptations. In May 2025, Éditions de L'Herne republished the Cahier devote…

waz.de

Factuality

Ownership

For decades, one Thomas-man wave has been rolling through Germany after another. The nation can find itself in the torn.