German writer and critic, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, one of the most famous literary creators of the first half of the 20th century.
His father's inheritance was large, so from 1895 Tom Mann devoted himself exclusively to writing.
The second edition of the novel "The Buddenbrokes" (1903) made Thomas Mann a famous and wealthy author. Obeying the then traditions of his caste, in 1905 married Katia Pringsheim (1883 – 1980), who came from a wealthy Jewish family. Tomas Manas had six children with her. Due to 1914 expressed enthusiastic support for the war, his relationship with his brother Heinrich was severed for many years. in 1924 the novel "Enchanted Mountain" appeared, on which Manas had been working since 1913.
in 1929 Tomas Manas was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the early 1940s, he warned of the potential dangers of National Socialism in many of his speeches. in 1933 after the Nazis seized power, Man went to give lectures and to Germany, from where he never returned. in 1938 emigrated to the United States, where he received the citizenship of this country and taught at Princeton University. Since 1940 Once a month, the BBC broadcasts a radio show hosted by me called "German Listeners". Only in 1949 the developer visited Germany again, but was heavily criticized for his "collective guilt thesis". Tom Man spent the last years of his life (from 1952) in Switzerland. Buried in the Kirchberg Cemetery near Zurich.
