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.

Thomas Mann published “The Magic Mountain” a century ago, in November 1924, ... Young, naïve, idealistic and romantic, he comes for three weeks and stays for seven years.