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Mann and Auden never lived together, but remained on good terms throughout their lives and were still married when Mann died; she left him a small bequest in her will. In 1936, Auden introduced Therese Giehse, Mann's lover, to the writer John Hampson and they too married so that Giehse could leave Germany.
May 16, 2012 · Julian Fleisher as George Davis, Kristen Sieh as Carson McCullers, Stephanie Hayes as Erika Mann, and Erik Lochtefeld as W.H. Auden (Photo: T. Charles Erickson)
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In 1935 she married the poet W. H. Auden, purely to ensure she could obtain a British passport and not become stateless when the Nazi regime cancelled her German citizenship.
137 Accesses. Abstract. On June 15, 1935, W. H. Auden married Erika Mann, daughter of the German novelist Thomas Mann, in a small ceremony in Ledbury, England. Far from a legendary love affair between two literary celebrities, however, this marriage is a largely forgotten, idiosyncratic tidbit in Auden’s biography.
- Bridget T. Chalk
- 2014
After her uncle Heinrich and her brother Klaus, she was the third member of the Mann family to be expatriated. Erika Mann's response was to enter into a marriage of convenience with the English writer W. H. Auden, which allowed her to become a British citizen just one week later.
Sep 17, 2021 · Erika Mann marries WH Auden, not for sex (they are both gay) but for a British passport; in a wonderfully comic scene Tóibín summons up Auden being acidically bitchy about Virginia Woolf.
Oct 2, 2021 · In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a lesbian writer and actress and the daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann. A marriage of convenience, the union helped Mann, who was a German Jew, obtain a British passport to escape the Nazis. The couple fled to Britain, where Auden worked as a freelance writer.
