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219395
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Title
Duitsland heeft me nooit met rust gelaten
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Amerikaans dagboek 1940-1948
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Literary number
203
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a
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Year
1995
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Number of pages
367
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90-295-3029-4
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Thomas Mann (Lübeck, June 6, 1875 - Zurich, August 12, 1955) was a German writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Thomas Mann was a younger brother of writer Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) and the son of the merchant Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann. His mother Julia (née da Silva-Bruhns) was half Brazilian. Three more children were born from this marriage: Julia (1877), Carla (1881) and Viktor (1890). Thomas later described his childhood as happy and carefree. In 1891 his father died of bladder cancer. In his last will he had expressed that his own company and the family house had to be sold. After that, the Mann family lived on the interest from the sale. During his school days, Thomas Mann showed no great interest in the lessons, although he was clearly very gifted. He preferred to write for the magazine Der Frühlingssturm, of which he became co-publisher in 1893. Thomas Mann was apparently well aware of his vocation as a literary teacher, as evidenced by a surviving letter from 1889 in which the 14-year-old closes with "Thomas Mann, lyrical-dramatic poet". In 1894 he left the gymnasium and moved to Munich, where his mother and the other children had lived for a year. The guardian appointed after the death of Thomas Mann's father ordered Thomas to choose a civil profession after high school. He accepted this and decided to work for an insurance company. Mann regarded this activity as dull and unpretentious and there is an anecdote that remains uncontested to this day, that he was secretly engaged as a literate during his work. In 1894 Thomas Mann made his debut with the novella Gefallen, which was published in the magazine Wohlgefallen. In 1895, Mann retired from the insurance company and began studying at the Technische Hochschule in Munich. He originally planned to learn for the profession of journalist. But the disinterest that he had already shown in his work at school, he continued in his studies. When Thomas Mann came of age at 21 and thus money from his father's inheritance became available (about 160 to 180 gold marks per year), he decided he had had enough of all the schools and institutions and established himself as an independent writer. First publications: Almost immediately after the thought had occurred to Mann to go to Italy with his brother Heinrich, they put their money where their mouth was. They wanted to go to Rome and in 1897 rented a house in Palestrina, which is east of the Italian capital. Mann wrote several novels at the time, including Der kleine Herr Friedemann. He also started work on his novel Buddenbrooks - Verfall einer Familie. During this time, Mann also worked briefly for Das Zwanzigste Jahrhundert - Blätter für deutsche Art und Wohlfahrt, a German magazine with an anti-Semitic slant. Later he was not proud of this and was reluctant to answer questions about this period. His brother Heinrich was also a member of it for a short time. In 1898 Mann exchanged the magazine for the magazine Simplicissimus, of which he would remain an editor for a year. His first major novel, Buddenbrooks, was published in 1901, for which he was to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. However, the novel De Toverberg (1924) is considered a highlight in his oeuvre, for which he was inspired, among other things, by the stay of his wife Katia Pringsheim in a Swiss sanatorium. Partial bibliography: 1901: The Buddenbrooks 1903: Tonio Kröger and Other Stories 1903: Tristan 1909: Your Royal Highness 1912: Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice) 1918: Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen 1919: Boss and dog 1924: The Magic Mountain 1933-1943: Joseph und seine Brüder 1939: Lotte in Weimar 1940: The Switched Heads: An Indian Legend 1944: The Law 1947: Doctor Faustus. The life of the German composer Adrian Leverkühn told by a friend. 1951: The Chosen One 1953: The Deceived 1954: Disappointments of the con artist Felix Krull Children: Erika Mann (1905-1969), actress, writer Klaus Mann (1906-1949), writer Golo Mann (1909-1994]), writer, historian Monika Mann (1910-1992), writer Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002), writer, lawyer Michael Mann (1919-1977), musician, literary scholar

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