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House of the Mann family in Lübeck ("Buddenbrookhaus"), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum. Paul Thomas Mann was born to a hanseatic family in Lübeck, the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and a grain merchant) and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns, a Brazilian woman of German, Portuguese and Native Brazilian ancestry, who emigrated to Germany with her family ...
Thomas Mann (born September 27, 1991 [1]) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films Project X (2012), As Cool as I Am (2013), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), Kong: Skull Island (2017), and Halloween Kills (2021).
Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. [1] It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a boy in a family of Polish tourists—Tadzio, a nickname for Tadeusz.
Mann started writing The Magic Mountain in 1912. It began as a novella that revisited aspects of Death in Venice (another novel written by Mann) in a humorous way. The newer work reflected his experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, whom was suffering from respiratory disease, resided at Dr. Friedrich Jessen's [] Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland.
Thomas Mann (15 April 1856 – 13 March 1941), was an English trade unionist and is widely recognised as a leading, pioneering figure for the early labour movement in Britain. Largely self-educated , Mann became a successful organiser and a popular public speaker in the British labour movement .
Thomas Robert Mann (born 1947) is an American jewelry artist known primarily for his metalsmithing and assemblage techniques. [1] Combining industrial-style metals with found trinkets and baubles, Mann has dubbed his style "Techno-Romantic" and runs Studio I/O in New Orleans, Louisiana , where he now lives and works.
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (October 1, 1768 – June 20, 1828) was an American planter, soldier, and politician from Virginia. He served as a member of both houses of the Virginia General Assembly , a representative in the United States Congress , and as the 21st governor of Virginia , from 1819 to 1822.
Her sons Heinrich and Thomas created characters inspired by her in several of their books, referring to her South American blood and passionate artistic temperament. Thomas Mann describes Júlia as "Portuguese-Creole Brazilian". In Buddenbrooks she was the inspiration for Gerda Arnoldsen and Toni Buddenbrook.