Save the date: The next Thomas Mann Lecture is going to explore Thomas Mann's work from a perspective that has so far received little attention: his mother's Brazilian origins and her connection to slavery and colonialism.
In the Thomas Mann Archive, in addition to extensive holdings of letters from and to Katia Mann, her bequeathed library has also been preserved. Learn more
Holdings of Katia, Erika, Monika and Elisabeth Mann
The Thomas Mann Archive contains not only the author's extensive correspondence but also numerous letters from and to his wife Katia Mann (4783 individual items) and his daughters Erika (298), Monika (180) and Elisabeth Mann (235).
Database with digitized reading traces in Thomas Mann's private library. Copyright-free books are accessible online.
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"The problem of cultural democracy, however, is that of the standard, the elevation of the standard: [...] because it is an intelligent-advanced social form of pronounced sensitivity[…]." (Romane der Welt, GW X, 675)