Thomas Mann Writer

Paul Thomas Mann ([paʊ̯l toːmas man]; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in the novel Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he immigrated to the United States, returning to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.

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Alias (AKA)	Paul Thomas Mann
Birth date	June 06, 1875
Birth name	Paul Thomas Mann
Birth place	German Empire , Lübeck , Free City of Lübeck
Date of death	August 12, 1955
Place of death	Switzerland , Zürich

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Career start	1896
Career end	1954
genre	Novella
influenced	Orhan Pamuk Heinrich Böll Yukio Mishima Joseph Heller
notable work	The Magic Mountain Buddenbrooks Death in Venice Joseph and His Brothers