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Also known as Paul Thomas Mann

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

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Thomas Mann was a male writer and university teacher born on 6 June 1875 and died on 12 August 1955. His work period spanned from 1890 to 1955. He held nationalities including German, Swiss, and American. His literary fields included literature, novels, humanitarianism, and essays.

His notable works include *Erzählungen*, *Aufsätze*, *Reden*, *Essays*, *Das Eisenbahnunglück*, *Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull*, and *Joseph und seine Brüder*. He was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Literature collection. He received one Nobel Prize.

His works are associated with genres such as audio drama, audiobook, and German audio plays. He is similar to artists Daniel Kehlmann, Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Sven Regener, and Franz Kafka. His quotes include "Beauty can pierce one like pain" and "Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote."

Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 11 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, VIAF, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
6 June 1875
Died
12 August 1955
Works
1490

Top works

  • Erzählungen
  • Aufsätze, Reden, Essays
  • Das Eisenbahnunglück
  • Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
  • Joseph und seine Brüder

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1875-06-06
Active to
1955-08-12
_consistencyaudio dramaaudiobookhas german audio playshas german audiobooks

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,569
Total plays
75,355

Tags

spoken wordgermandeutschAudiobookRIP

Similar artists

Daniel KehlmannStefan ZweigHermann HesseSven RegenerFranz Kafka

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Thomas+Mann">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan
1875–1955
Nationality
DE, CH, US, JP, USA
Role / Field
Forfatter, Ecrivains, Authors, Writer, Vysokoskolsti ucitele, Literatura
Language
ger, deu
Gender
Male

Recorded by 46 libraries

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Quotes

  • To place Russian communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, superficial, in the worse case it is fascism. He who insists on this equality may be a democrat; in truth and in his heart, he is already a fascist, and will surely fight fascism with insincerity and appearance, but with complete hatred only communism.
  • Here and there, among a thousand other peddlers, are slyly hissing dealers who urge you to come along with them to allegedly "very beautiful" girls, and not only to girls. They keep at it, walk alongside, praising their wares until you answer roughly. They don't know that you have resolved to eat nothing but rice just to escape from sexuality!
  • We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side.
  • Beauty can pierce one like pain.
  • Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
  • The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no preciser name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Literature1929

    principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature

Works in European collections

18 objects attributed to Thomas Mann, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modern versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.

The Mann family was part of the Hanseatic class. He portrayed both his family and the influential class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks (1901). Late major novels include The Magic Mountain (1924), the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers (1933–1943), and Doctor Faustus (1947). He also wrote short stories and novellas, including Death in Venice (1912).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas Mann” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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