Thomas
Mann, the son of a merchant, was
born in Lubeck, Germany, on 6th June, 1875.
At the age of 18 Mann moved to Munich where he worked in an insurance
office while attending university lectures. He then moved to Italy
where he wrote his first novel Buddenbrooks:
The Decline of a Family (1901).
On his return to Germany
Mann had several short-stories published in the literary magazine,
S. This included the remarkable Death of
Venice (1913). During the First World
War he wrote the patriotic Reflections
of a Non-Political Man (1918).
Mann's international reputation
was enhanced with the publication of The
Magic Mountain (1927). This won him the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1929.
A strong opponent of Adolf
Hitler he was forces to flee Nazi
Germany in 1933. After living in Switzerland
Mann emigrated to the United States in 1936.
During the Second World War Mann made anti-Hitler
broadcasts to Germany. The scripts were published in the book Twenty-Five
Messages to the German People (1945).
Mann returned to Germany
after the war and had further success with the publication of Doctor
Faustus (1947). His unfinished novel, Confessions
of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, was published after his
death on 12th August, 1955.
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