- Heinrich Mann
Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (
27 March 1871 –12 March 1950 ) was a German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933.Life and work
Born in
Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann andJúlia da Silva Bruhns . He was the elder brother ofThomas Mann . His father came from a patrician grain merchant family and was a Senator of theHanseatic city. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family toMunich , where Heinrich began his career as a "freier Schriftsteller" or "free novelist".His essay on Zola and the novel "Der Untertan" earned him much respect during the
Weimar Republic , since it satirized German society and explained how its political system had led to the First World War. Eventually, his book "Professor Unrat" was liberally adapted into the successful movie "Der Blaue Engel " ("The Blue Angel").Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script, andJosef von Sternberg was the director. The book's author wanted his girlfriend, the actress Trude Hesterberg, to play the lead, butMarlene Dietrich was given her first major role instead as Lola Lola the "actress " (named Rosa Fröhlich in the novel).Together with
Albert Einstein and other celebrities, Mann was a signatory to a letter to theInternational League of Human Rights condemning the murder of Croatian scholar DrMilan Šufflay on18 February 1931 .Mann became "persona non grata" in Nazi Germany and left even before the
Reichstag fire in 1933. He went toFrance where he lived inParis andNice . During the German occupation he made his way toMarseille inVichy France and there was aided byVarian Fry in 1940 to escape toSpain . He then went toPortugal and sailed to America.During the 1930s and later in American exile, his literary career went downhill, and eventually he died in
Santa Monica, California , lonely and without much money, just months before he was to move to Soviet-occupied Germany to become president of the Prussian Academy of Arts. His ashes were later taken toEast Germany .His second wife Nelly Mann (1890-1944) committed suicide in Los Angeles. She was 27 years younger than him.
Bibliography
"Incomplete"
*"In einer Familie". 1894.
*"Im Schlaraffenland". 1900.
** "In the Land of Cockaigne". Transl. from the German by Axton D. B. Clark. New York: Macaulay, 1929.
*"Die Jagd nach Liebe". 1903.
*"Professor Unrat". 1905.
** "The blue angel". Reprint of the 1932 ed. published by Jarrolds, London. Includes facsimile reprint of the original title page. New York: H. Fertig, 1976.
*"Der Untertan " ("The Loyal Subject" or "Man of Straw"), 1919.
*"Das Kaiserreich" ("The Empire"). 1918 – 1925
*"Die kleine Stadt". 1909.
*"Die Jugend des Königs Henri Quatre". 1935.
*"Die Vollendung des Königs Henri Quatre". 1938.
*"André Gide and the Crisis of Modern Thought. [With a portrait.] . Creative Age Press: New York, 1943.
* "Briefwechsel mitBarthold Fles , 1942-1949." 1993. (posthumous publication; editorMadeleine Rietra )ee also
* Walter Fähnders/Walter Delabar: "Heinrich Mann (1871 - 1950)". Berlin 2005 (Memoria 4)
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Dohm-Mann family tree Persondata
NAME = Mann, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Mann, Luiz Heinrich
SHORT DESCRIPTION = German poet
DATE OF BIRTH =March 27 ,1871
PLACE OF BIRTH =Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH =March 12 ,1950
PLACE OF DEATH = Santa Monica, California, United States
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