- Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
| Born: | 06 June 1875 Comment | | When did Thomas Mann die? / Died | 12 August 1955 | | How many years did Thomas Mann live? / Lived | 80 years | | Zodiac sign: | Gemini |
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Thomas Mann facts
- 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 modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
- Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks
- His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers
- When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland
- When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, returning to Switzerland in 1952
- Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur, literature written in German by those who opposed or fled the Hitler regime
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