Tag: Thomas Mann
Klaus Mann biography by Thomas Medicus: emaciated darling of the gods – Culture
Perhaps it is part of the tragedy of the writer Klaus Mann that his life is almost always told as a tragedy. The son of the world-famous Thomas Mann, who…
Concept of God in Omri Boehm and Thomas Mann: Why sacrifice the son? – Culture
God demands that Abraham bring his son Isaac to him as a burnt offering, and only when Abraham has already raised his hand with the knife to kill the boy…
Ägypten-Tipps in München: ein Aida“-Opernspektakel in XXL und vieles mehr – München
Ein elefantöses Opern-Event in der Olympiahalle “Aida” ist die meistgespielte Oper der Welt, oft kolossal inszeniert. Der “Triumphmarsch” – ein Smash-Hit der Operlative. Aber so wie bei dem neuen Arena-Spektakel…
Thomas Mann’s “Zauberberg” at the Munich Volkstheater – Munich
Davos is located quite high up, almost 1600 meters above sea level. “Horribly high,” it says at the beginning of Thomas Mann’s novel “The Magic Mountain.” Those who treated themselves…
“55 Voices for Democracy” series: pincer attack from right and left – culture
In the fall of 1940, the British radio station BBC asked the German Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann to write short radio lectures in his Californian exile that were broadcast…
Reading: Thomas Mann and the Sea – Munich
In his latest novel, the author and literary critic Volker Weidermann devotes himself to the extraordinary love in the life of Thomas Mann: the sea. For the Nobel Prize winner…
Obituary for Eckhard Heftrich, Germanist and Thomas Mann researcher – culture
In its Introductory speech at the German Academy German scholar Eckhard Heftrich described the uncompromising rejection of the Nazi regime in his parents’ house as a biographical stroke of luck.…
“Our Ones”, novel by Inger-Maria Mahlke: Traces of the Buddenbrooks. – Culture
With Hanseatic reliability, Inger-Marie Mahlke, born in Hamburg in 1977 and raised in Lübeck, has published a novel every two to three years since 2010 until she received the German…
Residenztheater: An evening in a family setting
Bastian Kraft stages “Buddenbrooks” based on Thomas Mann at the Cuvilliéstheater. He developed a very clear version of the epochal novel for the photo album. source site
SZ podcast “Munich personally”: Anke Buettner, head of Monacensia – Munich
Since 2019, Anke Buettner has headed a very special Munich institution: the Monacensia. But what is the Monacensia? The short answer to this question: the city’s literary archive. At first…