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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).
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.
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.
Joseph and His Brothers (German: Joseph und seine Brüder, pronounced [ˈjoːzɛf ʊnt ˌzaɪ̯nə ˈbʁyːdɐ]) is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, written over the course of 16 years. Mann retells the familiar stories of Genesis , from Jacob to Joseph (chapters 27–50), setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period .
Adaptations of works by Thomas Mann (2 C, 2 P) T. Translators of Thomas Mann (8 P) W. Works by Thomas Mann (4 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Thomas Mann"
Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns, otherwise known as Lotte in Weimar (German: [ˈlɔ.tə ɪn ˈvaɪ.̯maʁ] ⓘ) or The Beloved Returns, is a 1939 novel by Thomas Mann.It is a story written in the shadow of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Mann developed the narrative almost as a response to Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, which is more than 150 years older than Lotte in Weimar.
Buddenbrooks (German: [ˈbʊdn̩ˌbʁoːks] ⓘ) is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877.