He was also attracted to young men, though this did not seem to bother Katia ... Germany had lost the war and democracy arrived with the Weimar Republic -- that Thomas Mann changed his stance and ...

“We’re a young institution,” the 35-year-old deadpanned, ... “There’s the artistic Thomas Mann,” said Hartmann of the author, who won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.

We were standing outside the sleek, two-story Thomas Mann House on a Friday morning last week. ... "We're a young institution," the 35-year-old deadpanned, "but very experienced in crises." ...