Heinrich Mann

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Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (27 March 1871 – 11 March 1950) was a German novelist who wrote works with strong social themes. His attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of pre-World War II German society led to his exile in 1933. Contents [show] [edit]Life and work

Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Júlia da Silva Bruhns, he was the elder brother of Thomas Mann.[1] His father came from a patrician grain merchant family and was a Senator of the Hanseatic city. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Munich, 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, and Josef von Sternberg was the director. The book's author wanted his girlfriend, the actress Trude Hesterberg, to play the lead, but Marlene 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 the Urgent Call for Unity condemning the murder of Croatian scholar Dr Milan Šufflay on 18 February 1931. Mann became persona non grata in Nazi Germany and left even before the Reichstag fire in 1933. He went to France where he lived in Paris and Nice. During the German occupation he made his way to Marseille in Vichy France and there was aided by Varian Fry in 1940 to escape to Spain. He then went to Portugal and sailed to America. The Nazis burnt Heinrich Mann's books as "contrary to the German spirit" during the infamous book burnings of May 10th 1933, which was instigated by the then Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. 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 to East Germany. His second wife Nelly Mann (1898-1944) committed suicide in Los Angeles. [edit]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. Small Town Tyrant. Transl. by Ernest Boyd, 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. Der Hass : Deutsche Zeitgeschichte. Querido Verlag, Amsterdam : 1933. 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 mit Barthold Fles, 1942-1949. 1993. (posthumous publication; editor Madeleine Rietra) [edit]Further reading

Mauthner, Martin: German Writers in French Exile, 1933-1940, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2007, (ISBN : 978 0 85303 540 4). Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Heinrich Mann Walter Fähnders/Walter Delabar: Heinrich Mann (1871 - 1950). Berlin 2005 (Memoria 4)

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Luiz Heinrich Mann (* 27. März 1871 in Lübeck; † 11. März 1950[1] in Santa Monica, Kalifornien) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und der ältere Bruder von Thomas Mann, in dessen Schatten er stets stand.

Ab 1930 war er Präsident der Preußischen Akademie der Künste, aus der er nach der nationalsozialistischen Machtergreifung ausgeschlossen wurde. Mann, der bis 1933 meist in München gelebt hatte, emigrierte zunächst nach Frankreich, dann in die USA. Im Exil verfasste er zahlreiche Arbeiten, darunter viele antifaschistische Texte.

Seine Erzählkunst war vom französischen Roman des 19. Jahrhunderts geprägt.[2] Seine Werke hatten oft gesellschaftskritische Intentionen. Die Frühwerke sind zumal oft beißende Satiren auf bürgerliche Scheinmoral, der Mann – inspiriert von Friedrich Nietzsche und Gabriele D’Annunzio[2] – eine Welt der Schönheit und Kunst entgegensetzte.

Mann analysierte in den folgenden Werken die autoritären Strukturen des Deutschen Kaiserreichs im Zeitalter des Wilhelminismus. Resultat waren drei Romane, die heute als die Kaiserreich-Trilogie bekannt sind, deren erster Teil Der Untertan künstlerisch am meisten überzeugt.

Im Exil verfasste er sein Hauptwerk, die Romane Die Jugend des Königs Henri Quatre und Die Vollendung des Königs Henri Quatre. Sein erzählerisches Werk steht neben einer reichen Betätigung als Essayist und Publizist. Er tendierte schon sehr früh zur Demokratie und positionierte sich sofort gegen den Nationalsozialismus, dessen Anhänger Manns Werke öffentlich verbrannten.