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  1. Heinrich Mann (born March 27, 1871, Lübeck, Ger.—died March 12, 1950, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S.) was a German novelist and essayist, a socially committed writer whose best-known works are attacks on the authoritarian social structure of German society under Emperor William II. Mann, the elder brother of the novelist Thomas Mann, entered ...

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  2. May 9, 2018 · Heinrich Mann. The German novelist, essayist, and social critic Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) achieved his greatest success with his critiques of German society. Heinrich Mann was born in Lübeck, northern Germany, on March 27, 1871. After completing his education in his hometown, Mann went to Dresden and a year later began working for a publishing ...

  3. Heinrich Mann. Writer: The Blue Angel. Heinrich Mann, German novelist and the elder brother of Nobel-Prize winner Thomas Mann, is most famous in the English-speaking world for his novel "Professor Unrat" that was turned into the successful 1930 movie "Der Blaue Engel" ("The Blue Angel"). Mann once enjoyed a considerable reputation in German literary circles, but many of his novels and ...

    • March 27, 1871
    • March 11, 1950
    • Introduction↑
    • Der Untertan↑
    • Position on The First World War↑
    • Conclusion↑

    While the vast, overwhelming majority of literary authors in Germany and Austria reacted enthusiastically to the outbreak of World War I, a small minority opposed the war. Some examples include the pacifist literary magazine Forum, edited by Wilhelm Herzog (1884-1960), and the anti-war proclamation published on 1 August in Franz Pfemfert’s (1879-19...

    Mann’s position was primarily based on a fundamental analysis of the Wilheminian society, which he undertook in his satirical novel Der Untertan (“The Subject” or, more appropriately, “The Patriot”). This novel showed the untenable nature of social antagonisms in Germany, and also demonstrated how inevitable a devastating European war had become. T...

    Throughout the war, Heinrich Mann held on to his anti-war position while pro-war sentiments and statements prevailed and anti-militaristicprotest was banned or censured. In a note written in 1915 (and published only in 1971), Heinrich Mann refers once again to his novel, apologizing to his main hero for underestimating him. While he, the author, “t...

    Heinrich Mann’s prophetic novel Der Untertan was published in its entirety in November of 1918. Although it was published late, or even too late, the text had a long lasting influence on historical, political and literary discussions in Germany well into the 1920s, after 1945, and even into the 1980s and beyond. The novel became an immediate bestse...

  4. Jul 1, 2011 · Heinrich Mann’s Legacy. Share full article. July 1, 2011. To the Editor: In his June 19 review of “House of Exile,” Evelyn Juers’s biography of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann, John ...

  5. A German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933. Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Júlia da Silva Bruhns. He was the elder brother of Thomas Mann.

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  7. Oct 8, 2018 · Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) was the older brother of well-known German author Thomas Mann. His work was often intended as social criticism. Along with The Loyal Subject, Heinrich Mann's most famous ...

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