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  Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann's attacks on militarism, nationalism, and the authoritarian social structure of German society, led to his exile in 1933.
Whereas Thomas Mann was influenced by the Russian novelists of the 19th century, especially Leo Tolstoy, and drew international attention to German prose with his works, the francophile Heinrich never gained the fame of his brother and was considered more of a Leftist social critic.
Mann studied at a private preparatory school until 1889, and then worked as an apprentice to a bookseller in Dresden and as a publisher in Berlin (1891-92).
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  Heinrich Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (March 27, 1871 March 12, 1950) wrote German novels with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933.
He was born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns and was the elder brother of Thomas Mann.
Together with Albert Einstein and other celebrities, Mann was a signatory to a letter to the International League of Human Rights condemning the murder of Croatian scholar Dr Milan Sufflay on February 18, 1931.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heinrich_Mann   (347 words)

  
 Thomas Mann [1875-1955],Legend,Thomas Mann [1875-1955],A leading German writer of the early 20th century, was ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Thomas Mann, the foremost German novelist of the 20th century, was born of a patrician family in the north German city of Lubeck on June 6, 1875.
Mann's marriage (1905) to Katja Pringsheim, daughter of a wealthy Jewish family of bankers and scholars, fulfilled his ambition to become father of a family (they were to have six children) and also secured his financial independence.
Mann's lifelong theme, as he observed in the essay "On Myself" (1940), is the breakdown of civilization - the invasion of the carefully cultivated and disciplined defenses of Western culture by the elemental power of Dionysian urges.
www.4to40.com /legends/index.asp?article=legends_thomasmann   (962 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Mann, Heinrich
Heinrich Mann, a prolific writer of pre-World War II German literature, is best known for his satirical novels and political activism.
Heinrich Mann was in a small minority of intellectuals in Germany who actually opposed the war from the start, and he welcomed the Weimar Republic in 1919.
Heinrich Mann was thus defined as a writer of tendentious political polemic, whose time-bound satirical topics contrasted sharply to the transcendent themes and subtle irony of Thomans Mann’s oeuvre.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Mann, Thomas
Paul Thomas Mann was born on 6 June 1875 in Lübeck, an old Hanseatic city, as the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, owner of an established grain business and one of the city’s most respected citizens, and Julia Mann, née da Silva-Bruhns, a beautiful, artistically inclined woman of German and South American origins.
Mann’s reputation as the foremost proponent of German culture and humanism, and thus as an icon of resistance to Hitler and his Germany, compensated him for all he had lost in 1933.
Mann is recognized both as an outstanding chronicler and representative of a bygone bourgeois world and as a writer with a profound sensitivity to the traumas of the twentieth century.
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 Heinrich Mann: Exhibitions: Feuchtwanger Memorial Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Heinrich Mann, one of the foremost German writers of the twentieth century, lived almost penniless and seemingly forgotten in Los Angeles for nearly a decade before his death in 1950.
Heinrich Mann began actively pursuing a career in writing in the 1890s after failing as a publisher's apprentice.
Mann remained in France until the country fell to German occupation, whereupon Mann and his wife, Nelly, fled Europe.
www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/exhibits/mann   (492 words)

  
 German_new
Mann's mother, however, was of partly Brazilian descent (though most of her ancestors were Lübeck patricians); she played the piano, and introduced an exotic, artistic aspect into the family.
Mann begins a friendship with the painter Paul Ehrenberg, which he later refers to as "the central emotional experience of my life." Mann's primary if not exclusive sexual orientation was homosexual, though he remained deeply in the closet, and it is unknown whether he ever actually consummated a homosexual relationship.
Mann dabbled in lyric and drama, and wrote a number of important essays and speeches, but his real genius was as a writer of prose fiction, and the great bulk of his immense productivity consists of short stories, novellas, and novels.
camden-www.rutgers.edu /dept-pages/german/mann.html   (609 words)

  
 Opulent, but flawed The Manns: a Novel of a Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In terms of their ideological and artistic roots, the Mann brothers—the sons of a leading Lübeck trader—were shaped and influenced by the prevailing ideas circulating amongst prominent layers of the new aspiring bourgeoisie in Germany towards the end of the nineteenth century.
Heinrich and Thomas Mann were born around the time of German unification (1871 and 1875, respectively); their lives would span two world wars and the rise and fall of fascism.
Breloer’s television version of the life of the Mann family fails because it evades confronting the ideas which so powerfully shaped the lives of the Manns and which were to play such a dramatic and tragic role in the twentieth century.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/dec2001/mann-d27.shtml   (1637 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Mann, Thomas
Mann was born the second of five children to parents who embodied the duality that would become the central theme of his writing.
Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, his father, was a very successful businessman as well as influential and respected citizen of the North German port of Lübeck.
Many of Mann's chief works pursue the struggle to maintain a balance between the spheres of the artist and of the everyday, family man. Often at the core of that struggle is one male's urge to love another, an urge that teeters between expression and repression.
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 Thomas Mann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist and essayist, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironyironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology/ of the artist and intellectual and an underlying eroticism informed by Mann's own struggles with his homosexuality.
Mann's diaries, unsealed in 1975, speak movingly of his own struggles with his sexuality, which found reflection in his works, especially through the obsession of the elderly Aschenbach for the young Polish boy, Tadzio, in his long short story, or novella, ''Death in Venice'' (originally ''Der Tod in Venedig'', 1912).
Heinrich was an overt Communist, whereas Thomas was criticised for not condemning the Nazi regime enough...
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 Heinrich Böll: Das Bild der Frau
Das Bild der Frau in ausgewählten Romanen und Erzählungen Heinrich Bölls von "Kreuz ohne Liebe" bis "Gruppenbild mit Dame"
Auch Heinrich Böll, von vielen Leuten als toleranter und politisch engagierter Mensch und Autor geschätzt, hat in seinen Werken eine Vielzahl literarischer Frauen geschaffen.
Bei der Untersuchung der Frauenfiguren wird ausschließlich auf ausgewählte Romane und Erzählungen Heinrich Bölls Bezug genommen, welche während des Zeitraums von 1947 bis 1971 entstanden sind.
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Mann, the younger brother of the novelist and playwright Heinrich Mann, was born into an old merchant family in L[[cedilla]]beck on June 6, 1875.
Mann's fiction is characterized by accurate reproduction of the details of both modern and ancient life, by profound and subtle intellectual analysis of ideas and characters, and by a detached, somewhat ironic, point of view combined with a deep sense of the tragic.
Mann took refuge first in Switzerland and then in the United States (1938), becoming a citizen in 1944.
www.uib.no /ped/thomasmann.html   (471 words)

  
 Heinrich Mann Biography / Biography of Heinrich Mann Biography Biography
Heinrich Mann was born in Lübeck, northern Germany, on March 27, 1871.
Heinrich Mann's first creative phase, 1900-1914, began with a realistic, even naturalistic novel entitled Im Schlaraffenland (1900; In the Land of Cockaigne, 1929).
Mann's final creative period, 1940-1950, was spent in exile in the United States.
www.bookrags.com /biography-heinrich-mann   (712 words)

  
 Mann Revealed in Letters and `Doctor Faustus' / A half-century of correspondence and a new English translation of his ...
To the young Mann, politics ``was nearly synonymous with the betrayal of the intellect,'' writes Hans Wysling, compiler of the well-annotated first English edition of Thomas' correspondence with his older brother, fellow novelist Heinrich.
Mann scholar Anthony Heilbut notes in his foreword to the ``Letters'' that the Nazis, with improbable wit, even call left liberals ``Thomasmanner.'' By 1938 Mann was forced into exile in America, where, in Southern California, he tried unsuccessfully to make a place for Heinrich, whose fame by then was already in eclipse.
Mann acknowledged borrowing the 12- tone composition method of Arnold Schoenberg, a fellow exile whom he met in Los Angeles: He makes the innovation one of the devil's payoffs for Leverkuhn's barter of his soul.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/04/05/RV4371.DTL   (925 words)

  
 HEINRICH MANN FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (March_27, 1871 – March_12, 1950) wrote German novels with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933.
He was born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and his wife Júlia_da_Silva_Bruhns and was the elder brother of Thomas_Mann.
Together with Albert_Einstein and other celebrities, Mann was a signatory to a letter to the International_League_of_Human_Rights condemning the murder of Croatian scholar Dr Milan_Sufflay on February_18, 1931.
www.witwib.com /Heinrich_Mann   (312 words)

  
 The Canon as Process   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Manns could be distinguished during the first years of their reception only through their writings, since their public identities, in terms of heritage and artistic generation, were equivalent.
Heinrich Mann's more socially critical texts were blunted through an aesthetically tinged discourse of "appropriate effects," a criterion which is applied by critics both to the audience's reactions and to the critic's own sense of propriety.
Thomas Mann's works were consistently more thoroughly interpreted, and, in the process, contextualized as ethical works, while Heinrich Mann's works were often encapsulated as aesthetic objects with and denied ethical value.
www.law.duke.edu /edtech/staff/wmiller/diss/introd.html   (10594 words)

  
 Literary Canon as Process Abstract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Thomas Mann's texts were interpreted as expressions of his artistic personality, and he himself was appropriated for a "discourse of the artist." This discourse was employed by the literary critical institution as a means of justifying literature's social importance‹and hence its own.
Heinrich Mann's texts were evaluated according to several norms of representation, which I call the "mimetic discourse." This was used to limit the effect of his texts.
The institution at the turn of the century was moving in the direction of interpretation as its base activity.
www.law.duke.edu /edtech/staff/wmiller/diss/dissabst.html   (430 words)

  
 Heinrich Mann's Novels & Essays, 1571130993, £50.00/$70.00, 256pp, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Heinrich Mann, once counted among the most important literary figures in Germany, is known to most English-speaking readers only as the brother of Thomas Mann, or in connection with Marlene Dietrich and the film "The Blue Angel," which was based on one of his novels.
In his essays and novels, Mann exposed Germany's resistance to democracy well before the First World War, and especially during the Revolution of 1918/19 and the Weimar Republic he made the education of the German people to democratic values and a democratic form of government the center of his life and work.
Gunnemann's book traces Heinrich Mann's development as a writer and political activist throughout his career, providing one of the few English-language analyses of his collected writings....
www.boydell.co.uk /71130993.HTM   (449 words)

  
 Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: M: Mann, Heinrich
Heinrich Mann  · cached · Brief biography and bibliography of this German author whose well known novel 'Professor Unrat' had been adapted to screen as 'The Blue Angel'.
Heinrich Mann  · Photographs of his grave, birth and death information, cemetery details, and interactive visitor comments from Find A Grave.
Heinrich Mann  · iweb · cached · IMDb filmography of the writer's novels.
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 Thomas Mann - Autobiography
I was born in Lübeck on June 6, 1875, the second son of a merchant and senator of the Free City, Johann Heinrich Mann, and his wife Julia da Silva Bruhns.
In 1937 the University of Bonn deprived him of his honorary doctorate (restored in 1946), which aroused Mann to a famous and moving reply in which he epitomized the situation of the German writer in exile.
Mann, who had anticipated and warned against the rise of fascism during the Weimar Republic (e.g., in Mario and the Magician), continued to combat it in many pamphlets and talks throughout the period of the Nazi regime and the Second World War.
nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1929/mann-autobio.html   (1521 words)

  
 Thomas Mann's Under-aspected Mercury: Horoscope, Biography
Mann expressed spirit as intellectual refinement and creativity, and life as naive and unquestioning vitality.
In the book, patients of a tuberculosis sanitarium represent the conflicting attitudes and political beliefs of European society before World War I. Mann's longest work is Joseph and His Brothers (1933-1943).
In this series of four novels, Mann expands on the Biblical story of Joseph by analyzing it from the standpoint of psychology and mythology.
members.tripod.com /tra_nations/1b_tmann.htm   (531 words)

  
 Man of Straw
Heinrich Mann's novel Man of Straw is a poignant critique of a German society in which he knew well.
Mann believed that one should write novels not for entertainment but as a way of speaking aloud political critiques.
Mann sets up Hessling to be everything he despises about Wilhelmian Germany, he makes his character despicable not only to others around him but to the reader as well.
www-personal.umich.edu /~bcash/manofstraw.htm   (1188 words)

  
 Tales from Hollywood - Christopher Hampton
The largest figure among the exiles is Thomas Mann, portrayed here as a pompous windbag, expecting always to be treated with the proper deference.
Thomas' brother Heinrich Mann, who once outshone his brother but already then was hardly known outside his native Germany, and wife Nelly figure quite prominently in the play as well -- the most tragic of the figures.
Horváth's adaptability, Heinrich Mann's tragedy, Brecht's cynical realism, Thomas Mann's verbosity, and soul- and heart-less Hollywood are all nicely woven together.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/hamptonc/talesfh.htm   (847 words)

  
 Thomas Mann
Mann, Thomas, 1875–1955, German novelist and essayist, the outstanding German novelist of the 20th cent., b.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Title Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, No ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This collection of all extant letters between authors and brothers Thomas (Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain) and Heinrich Mann (The Blue Angel) is a welcome addition to the Mann canon.
Thomas was a deeply conservative, anti-Western nationalist; Heinrich was a francophile advocate of Western democracy, an avowed opponent of Germany's prevailing romantic nationalism.
Heinrich was the international socialist condemning the war, Thomas supporting the war as an extention of the great German Kultur, of which he was a formost spokesman.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520072782?v=glance   (1018 words)

  
 Herbert Lehnert
Here again there is a personal connection: Mann was also a native of Lübeck, and he went into exile as an opponent of National Socialism.
Besides essays on Thomas and Heinrich Mann, as well as German exile studies (1933-1945), I wrote articles on authors like Goethe, Brentano and Dürrenmatt, Rilke and Christa Wolf.
I have given graduate seminars on Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, on the problem of modernity in German Literature, on the German Lyric tradition, on German Prose since 1960, and also taught undergraduate courses on German literature and culture.
www.humanities.uci.edu /german/people/hlehnert/hlehnert.htm   (1059 words)

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