The registry is open for the eighth Thomas Mann Lecture: Join us in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Thomas Mann’s ‘Der Zauberberg’ with a keynote speech by Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. ?
Shortly after its publication, Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” was translated into several languages. How does a translator approach the novel 100 years later? A short video provides answers. ?
In the Thomas Mann Archive, in addition to extensive holdings of letters from and to Katia Mann, her bequeathed library has also been preserved. Learn more
Holdings of Katia, Erika, Monika and Elisabeth Mann
The Thomas Mann Archive contains not only the author's extensive correspondence but also numerous letters from and to his wife Katia Mann (4783 individual items) and his daughters Erika (298), Monika (180) and Elisabeth Mann (235).
Database with digitized reading traces in Thomas Mann's private library. Copyright-free books are accessible online.
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"The problem of cultural democracy, however, is that of the standard, the elevation of the standard: [...] because it is an intelligent-advanced social form of pronounced sensitivity[…]." (Romane der Welt, GW X, 675)