Résultats pour "Thomas Mann" dans Histoire

Im glühend heißen Sommer 1933 spitzt sich die politische Lage in Europa zu – und die der Familie Mann: Thomas und Katia Mann und ihre sechs Kinder sind nach abenteuerlichen Fluchten im Juni in dem verträumten Hafenort Sanary am französischen Mittelmeer gestrandet. Und jetzt wissen sie alle weder vor noch zurück.

When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation. 

Dive into the enchanting tale of Royal Highness, where Prince Klaus Heinrich, a scion of a waning German duchy, finds his life forever altered by the arrival of an alluring American heiress as his neighbor. Set against the backdrop of Europe on the brink of World War I, this novel masterfully captures the essence of a decaying society on the cusp of renewal through modern influences. It’s a contemporary fairy tale that weaves romance, intrigue, and the clash of tradition and progress. (Summary by Margaret Espaillat)

When Thomas Mann received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, his debut novel “Buddenbrooks,” published in 1901, was celebrated as “the first great novel of the 20th century.” The narrative unfolds around the Buddenbrook family, prosperous owners of a wholesale grain business in Lübeck, Germany—though the city is never explicitly named, its landmarks provide a vivid backdrop inspired by Mann’s own hometown and family history. Spanning four generations during the mid-19th century, the novel, subtitled “The Decline of a Family,” masterfully illustrates the gradual ...

Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional.

On 21 June 1941, assigned to Luftwaffe bomber wing Kampfgeschwader 53, the twenty-three-year-old Arnold Döring took off to fly his first mission against the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. From that day, he kept a diary describing his operations in vivid detail. These diaries, here translated into English for the first time, give a unique perspective on the action on the Eastern Front, from the point of view of a bomber pilot.

Rundfunk, der Geschichte machte. Dass der Kampf gegen Hitler-Deutschland nicht nur mutig war, sondern oft auch große Unterhaltung, ist hier erstmals in Reden, Liedern, Hörspielen und Kabarettsendungen zu hören, mit denen viele Schriftsteller und Künstler Widerstand leisteten. Die Grußsendungen mit deutschen Kriegsgefangenen waren so beliebt, dass sie tagsüber ausgestrahlt wurden und die Hörer hohe Zuchthausstrafen oder sogar ihr Leben riskierten.