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| German Literature | Thomas Mann
Mann was born on June 6, 1875 in Lubeck (Germany),
into a merchant family. His father passed away un 1891 and
Mann moved to Munich along with his mother and siblings (among
which was Heinrich, also a writer), where he worked for an
insurance company. His first publications appeared in the
satirical magazine Simplicissimus, and he began to work as
a literary critic, selling articles and short stories to various
different magazines.
In 1905 he married Katia Pringsherim, son of
Jewish mathematician Alfred Pringsherim, with whom he had
six children; at the same time he had various platonic relationships
with other men, with his classmate Armin Manters and
painter Paul Ehrenberg among them.
In his writings, influenced by the thoughts
of Schopenhauer, the individual tends to be confronted with
the surrounding environment; his first important novel was
Buddenbrooks (1901), followed by prominent titles
such as Tonio Kroger (1903), Death in Venice(1912),
The Magic Mountain (1924), Lotte in Weimar
(1939) and Doctor Faustus (1947). In 1929 he was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
As the Nazi political party, led by Adolf Hitler,
rose to power, Mann decided to leave the country, passing
through Switzerland before settling in the United States,
where he worked as college professor at Princeton University.
