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Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann

Name: Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Cast: Erika Mann, Golo Mann, Katia Mann

1969
1h 20m

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Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann (1969)

Katja Mann, wife of German novelist Thomas Mann, recalls their fifty years of marriage and their history both as a couple and independent intellectuals. In this conversation with Elisabeth von Plessen, Katja and her son Golo describes their life in vivid detail and reveal the background to many of Manns important writings including Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Death in Venice.

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Katja Mann, wife of German novelist Thomas Mann, recalls their fifty years of marriage and their history both as a couple and independent intellectuals. Born in Germany, the Manns were exile... Read allKatja Mann, wife of German novelist Thomas Mann, recalls their fifty years of marriage and their history both as a couple and independent intellectuals. Born in Germany, the Manns were exiled to the United States during WWII, and returned to Europe after the war, settling in Kilc... Read allKatja Mann, wife of German novelist Thomas Mann, recalls their fifty years of marriage and their history both as a couple and independent intellectuals. Born in Germany, the Manns were exiled to the United States during WWII, and returned to Europe after the war, settling in Kilchberg near Zurich. Katja (née Pringsheim) was a witness to all her husband's writing and g... Read all

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- Christian Blackwood
- Michael Blackwood
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- Christian Blackwood
- Michael Blackwood
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Elisabeth Plessen

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Golo Mann: In the writer's household, as that of my father, reality shifted somewhat. The artistic and the worldly, the so called worldly, would get mixed up in peculiar ways. For example; we the children have read the novel Buddenbrooks early in our lives and become familiar with it later thoroughly. There were no boundaries in our family for what is history and what is literature. I once visited the grave of my Grandfather in Lubeck. In the novel Senator Buddenbrooks had seemed to me as if standing at the grave of Thomas Buddenbrooks. I can't say to what extent these figures are similar.