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Thomas Mann, recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Lubeck, Germany. His father, a wealthy politician, died when Mann was 16. He was educated at the Lubeck gymnasium and the University of Munich. He later worked for the south German Fire Insurance Company. Afterwards he became a writer for the magazine SIMPLICISSIMUS.
Mann published his first work, DER KLEINE HERR FRIEDMANN, when he was 23. His second publication, BUDDENBROOKS, is one of his most famous. When he died, his final novel, CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, was unfinished.
Thomas Mann died near Zurich, Switzerland in 1955.
CHRONOLOGY
1875 He was born in Lubeck, Germany. (June 6)
1891 He moved to Munich.; His father died.
1894 He worked for the south German Fire Insurance Company.
1898 DER KLEINE HERR FRIEDMANN
1901 BUDDENBROOKS
1903 TONIO DROGER; TRISTAN
1905 He married Katja Pringsheim.
1909 DONIGLICHE HOHEIT
1912 DER TOD IN VENEDIG (DEATH IN VENICE)
1915 FRIEDRICH UND DIE GROSSE KOALITION
1918 BETRACHTUNG EINES UNPOLITISCHEN
1919 HERR UND HUND
1922 REDE UND ANTWORT
1924 DER ZAUBERBERG (THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN)
1925 BEMUHUNGEN
1926 UNORDNUNG UND FRUHES LEID (EARLY SORROW); VON DEUTSCHER REPUBLIK
1929 THREE ESSAYS; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1930 DIE FORDERUNG DES TAGES; MARIO UND DER ZAUBERER (MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN)
1933 PAST MASTERS AND OTHER ESSAYS; JOSEPH UND SEINE BRUDER (1933-1943)
1935 LEIDEN UND GROSSE DER MEISTER
1936 He moved to the United States.
1937 GREUD, GOETHE, WAGNER
1938 DIESER FRIEDE (THIS PEACE); ACHTUNG, EUROPA!
1939 LOTTE IN WEIMAR (THE BELOVED RETURNS)
1940 DIE VERTAUSCHTEN KOPFE; DIESER KRIEG
1942 ORDER OF THE DAY; DEUTSCHE HORER (LISTEN, GERMANY!)
1944 DAS GESETZ (THE TABLES OF THE LAW)
1947 DOKTOR FAUSTUS (DOCTOR FAUSTUS); ESSAYS OF THREE DECADES; He returned to Europe and settled in Switzerland.
1948 NEUE STUDIEN
1949 DIE ENTSTEHUNG DES DOKTOR FAUSTUS (THE GENESIS OF A NOVEL)
1950 THE THOMAS MANN READER
1951 DER ERWAHLETE (THE HOLY SINNER)
1953 DIE BETROGENE (THE BLACK SWAN)
1954 DIE BEKENNTNISSE DES HOCHSTAPLERS FELIX KRUSS (CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL)
1955 VERSUCH UBER SCHILLER; He died near Zurich, switzerland. (August 12)
1956 NACHLESE; ALTES UNE NEUES
1959 LAST ESSAYS
1960 LETTERS TO PAUL AMANN
1961 STORIES OF A LIFETIME
1963 WAAGNER UND UNSERE ZEIT; ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
1968 UBER DEUTSCHE LITERATUR
1970 LETTERS OF THOMAS MANN 1889-1955
1974 GESAMMELTE WERKE
1975 THE HESS-MANN LETTERS; AN EXCEPTIONAL FRIENDSHIP; THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS MANN AND KARL KERENYI
1982 DIEARIES 1918-1939; GOETHES LAUFBAHN ALS SCHRIFTSTELLER
1993 ESSAYS
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