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W. H. Auden. . ( m. 1935–1969) . Parent (s) Thomas Mann Katia Mann. Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (9 November 1905 – 27 August 1969) was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann. Erika lived a bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and became a critic of National Socialism. After Hitler came to power in 1933, she moved to ...
- “A Light-Minded Prelude”: Weimar Germany and Mann’s Pre-War Activism
- Producing The Voice of The BBC German Service
- Mann’s Work For The VOA in The United States
- Background Noise: “That Burning Sky”
- Mann’s Postwar Articulations
Like the medium through which she spoke to Nazi Germany, Mann was constantly in motion, easily crossing national borders and endorsing an intellectual cosmopolitanism in line with her status as a member of interwar Germany’s youthful avant-garde. Berlin was the center of a thriving art scene during the Weimar years; it was also the center to which ...
In May 1940, Mann wrote to Duff Cooper to offer her services as a BBC broadcaster, hoping that she could assist in efforts to awaken resistance against the Nazis among German listeners. As her letter illustrates, this was a project in which she firmly believed. Not only did she think that she “would be able to do a useful job for the German-languag...
These professional experiences were put to good use on the other side of the Atlantic. When addressing American citizens in her lectures Mann often began by depicting Britain as Europe’s last bastion of democracy: “The democratic way of living has survived the deadly onslaught aimed at its destruction,” she concluded one lecture. “Has survived so f...
“That Burning Sky” is a story about things that cannot be said, about voices that are silenced or cannot be heard. Early on, Mann identifies these issues as the narrative’s principal concerns when she introduces her protagonist Bob Stanhope and his work, which is centrally concerned with revoking an individual’s authority to speak: as switch censor...
Wartime conditions were instrumental in expanding transnational broadcasting practices in Allied nations. Radio acquired unprecedented significance as a propaganda tool, but the Allies also regarded it as an educational facilitator that could establish a new, democratic social order in post-totalitarian nations. It is no coincidence that Hugh Green...
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Mann, Erika (1905–1969) German writer, journalist, and actress who was a lifelong critic of political tyranny and champion of human freedom.Born Erika Julia Hedwig Mann in Munich, Germany, on November 9, 1905; died in Zurich, Switzerland, on August 27, 1969; daughter of Thomas Mann (1875–1955, the novelist) and Katia or Katja (Pringsheim) Mann; sister of Elisabeth Mann and Monika Mann ...
Erika Mann in Exile. Left-wing Activist. Switzerland. Primary Sources. Student Activities. References. Erika Mann, the daughter of the novelist, Thomas Mann, was born in Munich on 9th November, 1905. Her mother, Katia Pringsheim Mann, was the daughter of a wealthy, Jewish industrialist family who owned coal mines and early railroads. (1)
Aug 25, 2021 · Erika Mann behind the wheel, with codriver Ricki Hallgarten, after finishing a 1,000km race in Rome, in 1931. Credit: ullstein bild via Getty Images Erika Mann would often recall a childhood occasion in Munich during the First World War when, during food shortages, there was one fig left over after the family’s provisions had been divided ...
Feb 8, 2023 · Erika Mann gave the American and European public an early view of how the Nazis were transforming a whole generation of Germans by hijacking the education of the almost ten million children ...
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Aug 2, 2016 · In 1938, writer Erika Mann published a book called School for Barbarians: Education Under the Nazis (See reading, The Birthday Party, for another excerpt from Mann’s book). Mann had emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1937. Her book criticized the Nazis’ efforts to shape young people’s ideas and feelings.
