Thomas Mann, German writer
Aug. 08, 1980 - 25th Anniversary of the Death of Thomas Mann: On June 6th 1875 Thomas Mann was born in Lubeck as the son of a wealthy corn-dealer and senator. After the death of his father Thomas Mann went to Munich in 1893, where he became improver at an insurance company and at the same time co-worker of the satirical magazine Simplicissimus'. Together with his brother Heinrich Mann, who also was a writer, he travelled through Italy from 1895 to 1897. 1899 he became sub-editor of Simplicissimus, shortly after this an independent writer. From 1914 to 1933 he lived in Munich. in 1933 he emigrated to Kussnacht at the Zurichsee, Switzerland and in 1939 to USA. There he first was guest-professor in Princeton, later he lived in Pacific Palisades. 1944 he took American nationality. After the war he visited Germany more than once. and in 1952 he took his place of residence in Kilchberg near Zurich. There he died at August 12th, 1955. In 1920 Thomas Mann received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his first big novel Buddenbrooks'. He belongs to the most famous novel-writers in Germany in the first part of our century
