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Paul Thomas Mann (UK: MAN, US: MAHN; German pronunciation: [ˈtoːmas ˈman] ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of Mann's six children – Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann – also became significant German writers. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, then returned to Switzerland in 1952. Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur, German literature written in exile by those who opposed the Hitler regime.
Filmography
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Movies 37
Writer 29
self 3
TV Shows 3
Buddenbrooks (2008)
Believe Me (1996)
The Mirage (1992)
ORG (1979)
Hitler: A Career (1977)
Trisztán (1976)
Tristan (1975)
Tonio Kröger (1964)
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GenderMale
Birthday1875-06-06
Deathday1955-08-12 (80 years old)
Birth NamePaul Thomas Mann
Birth PlaceLübeck, Germany
ReligionLutheranism
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ChildrenErika Mann, Michael Mann, Golo Mann, Klaus Mann, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Monika Mann
FatherThomas Johann Heinrich Mann
MotherJúlia da Silva Bruhns
SiblingsHeinrich Mann, Carla Mann, Julia Löhr, Viktor Mann
CitizenshipsWeimar Republic, German Empire, Nazi Germany, Czechoslovakia
Also Known AsТомас Манн
AwardsCommander of the Order of Orange-Nassau, Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Feltrinelli Prize, Pour le Mérite, Order of Orange-Nassau, Goethe Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, honorary doctorate from Columbia University, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, honorary doctorate of Lund University, honorary doctor of the University of Bonn, honorary doctor of the University of Jena, honorary doctor of Rutgers University, honorary doctorate from Princeton University, honorary citizen of Lübeck, honorary doctor of ETH Zürich, honorary doctor of the Yale University
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