This is the setting that Thomas Mann chose for his influential 1924 novel, "The Magic Mountain." The story begins in 1907. Hans Castorp, the son of a Hamburg merchant and aspiring engineer ...

Early rise to literary prominence Thomas Mann was born on June 6, 1875 in Lübeck, northern Germany, to a merchant family. He was raised with four siblings, and as a schoolboy wrote his first ...

Film Review from the 24th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Christian Swegal, written by Christian Swegal, ...

Thomas Mann was born 150 years ago and is one of Germany's most important writers of the 20th century. As a Nobel Prize winner and political commentator, he has left a lasting literary legacy. In this ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier honoured Nobel prize winning author Thomas Mann on Friday ... and "Buddenbrooks," in which Mann came closer than ever before to his own origins, his ...

1. In his 1938 lecture “The Coming Victory of Democracy,” Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, shown, said: “Even America feels today that democracy is not an assured possession, that it has enemies ...

These strident views were often reflected in his work. Thomas Mann was born on June 6, 1875 in Lübeck, northern Germany, to a merchant family. He was raised with four siblings, and as a schoolboy ...