25 April 2018 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait
Reading Time: 10 minutesThomas Mann at Hotel Adlon in Berlin, 1929 © Bundesarchiv/cc-by-sa-3.0-de
Paul Thomas Mann 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 modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of
Goethe,
Nietzsche and
Schopenhauer. Mann’s work influenced many future authors, including
Heinrich Böll,
Joseph Heller,
Yukio Mishima, and
Orhan Pamuk.
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