Author: Thomas Mann
Profile: Thomas Mann was a German short story writer, novelist, philanthropist, social critic and essayist. He was born in Free City of Lubeck, German Empire and died in Zurich, Switzerland.
He completed his education at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Technical University of Munich. Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Joseph and His Brothers and Doctor Faustus are his most notable works. Katia Pringsheim was his spouse with whom Thomas Mann had 6 children.
In, Buddenbrooks, his debut novel, Mann has portrayed his Hanseatic Mann family and class. Mann fled to Switzerland in 1933 when Adolf Hitler attained power. In 1939 after the World War II broke out, Mann went to the United States and then in 1952 came back to Switzerland. Thomas Mann was one of the torch bearers of the Exilliteratur which comprises the writings of those who were opposed to Hitler and left Germany in voluntary exile. Author, Yukio Mishima was highly influenced with the works of Mann.
Writing style: Thomas Mann’s genre is novellas and novels. His novellas and novels are highly ironic, epic symbolic and well known for their insight into the artist’s psychology as well as the intellectual. Ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as well as modernized versions of Biblical and German stories are used by him in his critique and analysis of the German and European soul.
Published Texts:
Works
1901 – Buddenbrooks
1909 – Royal Highness
1924 – The Magic Mountain
1939 – Lotte in Weimar
1947 – Doctor Faustus
1951 – The Holy Sinner
1912 – Death in Venice (novella)
Others
1972 – Hayavadana (play)
1994 – Umberto Eco (essay)
1905 – Fiorenza (play)
1893 – Vision (prose sketch)
Short story
1894 – Gefallen
1896 – The Will to Happiness
1896 – Disillusionment
1896 – Little Herr Friedemann
1897 – Death
1897 – The Clown
1897 – The Dilettante
1898 – Tobias Mindernickel
1899 – The Wardrobe
1900 – Little Lizzy
1900 – The Road to the Churchyard
1903 – The Hungry
1903 – The Child Prodigy
1904 – A Gleam
1904 – At the Prophet’s
1905 – A Weary Hour
1907 – Railway Accident
1908 – Anecdote
1911 – The Fight between Jappe and the Do Escobar
Awards and Acknowledgements:
1929 – Nobel Prize in Literature
1949 – Goethe Prize