Klaus Mann : ein Leben / Thomas Medicus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Medicus, Thomas, Author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Mann, Klaus, 1906-1949.

Mann, Klaus.

Authors, German--20th century--Biography.

Authors, German.

Authors, German--Biography.

Biography.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Physical Description:

539 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Edition:

Originalausgabe.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Rowohlt, 2024.

Summary:

"Klaus Mann embodies the moving first half of the 20th century like hardly a second - as a dazzling bohemian, as a great writer. Thomas Medicus accompanies Klaus Mann (1906 to 1949) on the stations of his very modern life - from the sheltered Munich childhood, the career of the dandy in the Weimar Republic, which promoted homosexual emancipation, to emigration to various European states and the USA. Klaus Mann was a great traveler; erroneously between the continents, he published in unbridled writing flow. An extreme life, always overshadowed by drugs and debauchery, a death wish from early on. Then the return to Germany in 1945 as an American GI, finally the gloomy last years until his suicide in Cannes. In his great biography, Thomas Medicus tells this unlikely life and explores its obsessions and driving forces. The permanent conflict with the father Thomas Mann, the numerous political battles, his Amours, the close relationship with sister Erika. A gleaming reassessment of this sparkling writer and interpreter of his era, which is restored here as an impressive contemporary panorama."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-534) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783737101547

373710154X

OCLC:

1432071988

Publisher Number:

9783737101547