Thomas Mann - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1929
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Thomas Mann

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1929
principally for his great novel, <I>Buddenbrooks</I>, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature
Citizenship
German Reich German Reich United States United States Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Languages
German
date of birth
6/6/1875
place of birth
Lübeck
date of death
8/12/1955
place of death
Zurich
Lived
80 years

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member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 10/5/1947
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1942
  • Academy of Arts of the GDR
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
notable work
  • That man is my brother
  • At the Prophet's
  • An Appeal To Reason
  • Ein Glück
  • Gesang vom Kindchen
  • Nietzsches Philosophie im Lichte unserer Erfahrung
  • Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner
  • Schwere Stunde
  • Goethe and Tolstoi
  • Doctor Faustus
  • Death in Venice
  • The Black Swan
  • Buddenbrooks
  • The Clown
  • Royal Highness
  • Die Lösung der Judenfrage
  • Avenged
  • The Problem of Freedom
  • Railway Accident
  • The Child Prodigy
  • The Road to the Churchyard
  • Listen, Germany!
  • A Man and His Dog
  • Confessions of Felix Krull
  • Gefallen
  • Gladius Dei
  • Mario and the Magician
  • The Tables of the Law
  • Luischen
  • Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns
  • The Holy Sinner
  • The German Republic
  • The Fight between Jappe and the Do Escobar
  • The Blood of the Walsungs
  • Anekdote
  • Reflections of an Unpolitical Man
  • The Coming Victory of Democracy
  • Zur jüdischen Frage
  • Über die Lehre Spenglers
  • Der Tod
  • Versuch über das Theater
  • Versuch über Schiller
  • Tristan
  • Fiorenza
  • The Wardrobe
  • The Magic Mountain
  • The Will to Happiness
  • Germany and the Germans
  • The Transposed Heads
  • Vision
  • Disillusionment
  • Disorder and Early Sorrow
  • Tobias Mindernickel
  • Joseph and His Brothers
  • Little Herr Friedemann
  • The Hungry
  • Tonio Kröger
work location
  • Munich
  • Princeton
occupation
  • writer
  • screenwriter
  • university teacher
  • essayist
  • autobiographer
  • short story writer
  • social critic
  • novelist
  • diarist
  • poet
  • musician
educated at
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Katharineum
field of work
  • creative and professional writing
  • novel
  • prose
  • essay
employer
  • Simplicissimus
  • Princeton University
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