"Der Tod in Venedig" by Thomas Mann - S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin - 1924 first thus German edition (first and second printing of this larger format edition) - 25cmx18cm - condition: good, original boards with some rubbing and wear to boards and ends, internally very good. Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912.[1] It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a boy in a family of Polish tourists—Tadzio, so nicknamed for Tadeusz. Tadzio was based on a real boy named Władzio whom Mann had observed during his 1911 visit to the city.