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German author and feature writer

Monika Mann (7 June – 17 March ) was a German American author and feature writer. She was born in Munich, Germany, the fourth of six children of the Nobel Prize–winning author Thomas Mann and Katia, née Katharina Pringsheim.

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She trained as a pianist and her early attempts at a musical career seemed promising, but were not met with success and she instead pursued a career as a writer.^[1] She married in but lost her husband the following year, when the ship on which they were travelling to Canada was sunk by a German submarine.

Later that year she joined her family in Princeton, New Jersey, and was granted US citizenship in

Between and , she lived with her partner Antonio Spadaro in Villa Monacone on Capri. This was her most productive time as a writer and her books and several magazine articles were written during this period.

After the death of her partner she left Capri and spent her last years until her death with her brother Golo's adopted family in Leverkusen, Germany.

Family and early life

Thomas Mann was already well established as a novelist and short story writer at the time of Monika's birth, although his Nobel Prize came many years later.

Thomas manns biography net worth: In Mann left school. New York : Knopf, Career [ edit ]. Set in the years leading up to World War I, the book takes place in a sanatorium on a mountaintop in Switzerland and depicts a young man's struggles to find meaning in life against a backdrop of death, illness, and extremism.

Her mother, born Katharina Hedwig Pringsheim, was the daughter of the German Jewish mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim and the actress Hedwig Pringsheim.^[2] Due to her being the granddaughter of Júlia da Silva Bruhns, she was also of Portuguese-Indigenous Brazilian partial descent.^[3]

Monika had an elder sister, Erika (–) and two elder brothers, Klaus (–) and "Golo" (–).

A year after Monika's birth her mother was ill with a lung complaint and was one of the first patients to be admitted to the Wald Sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland.^[4] There was an interval of eight years before the birth of the last two children, a sister Elisabeth (–) and a brother Michael (–). Her uncle was the novelist Heinrich Mann.

She was not her parents' favourite. Her father confessed frankly in his diary that, of the six children, he preferred the two oldest, Klaus and Erika, and little Elisabeth.^[5] Her mother wrote in to Klaus that she was determined not to say any more unfriendly words about Monika and to be kind and helpful.^[6] In the family letters and chronicles she was often described as weird.

". . . after a three week stay here (in the parental home) she is still the same old dull quaint Mönle (her nickname in the family), pilfering from the larder . . .".^[7]

After boarding school at Schule Schloss Salem she trained as a pianist in Lausanne and spent her young years in Paris, Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin.

In when Hitler came to power she emigrated with her parents to Sanary-sur-Mer in southeastern France.^[1] In she studied music and history of art in Florence, taking private piano tuition from the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola.^[7]

Later career

In Florence she met the Hungarian art historian Jenő Lányi and in the couple left Italy for London, where they married on 2 March They left for Canada in on the SS City of Benares, carrying 90 child evacuees, their ten escorts, 91 paying passengers (including 10 children), and crew.

On 17 September the ship was sunk by a torpedo from the German submarine, U The couple managed to climb into Lifeboat 6 (also containing Anthony Quinton and his mother). As the lifeboat began to lower, the blocks slid out of place, and the stern end of the boat fell, flinging more than two thirds of the roughly sixty people into the sea.

The couple fell into the water. Monika grabbed and clung on to a large piece of wood floating nearby. Jenő, however, drowned, and she heard him call to her three times before he went under.^[7] She floated around in the sea for several hours, before a lifeboat, the same Lifeboat 6 from which she had fallen, found her drifting in the sea.

The lifeboat was heavily waterlogged and only 23 people were still in the lifeboat. Slowly, one by one, 15 of the occupants died.

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Mann was one of eight people who survived. Only one other woman, Letitia Quinton, in this lifeboat survived. The only child survivor was Quinton's son, Anthony. After 20 hours they were rescued by a British ship and taken to Scotland.^[8] Of the people on board the Benares, only had survived. Among the people who had died, were 81 children out of She reached New York on 28 October on the troopship Cameronia, and joined her parents, who had moved to the US in , at the outbreak of World War II.

For a while she lived with her parents, who showed little sympathy for her.

Thomas manns biography In , he published his first works and began Die Buddenbrooks influenced by work of Arthur Schopenhauer , published in Thomas Johann Seebeck. Archived from the original on 17 November The son Golo managed, at great risk, to smuggle the already completed chapters of the Joseph novel and the sensitive diaries into Switzerland.

Her traumatic loss of her husband and her attempts at a new beginning with them were ignored.^[1] Later she moved into her own apartment near her parents.

From to , with short breaks, she lived in New York. After attempts to renew her career as a pianist she turned to employment as a writer. In she was granted US citizenship, but she was already planning her return to Europe.

In September she travelled with her sister Elizabeth's family to Italy. After a few months in Genoa, Bordighera and Rome she fulfilled her desire to live in a beautiful region by moving to Capri, where she lived in the Villa Monacone with her partner, Antonio Spadaro. In Capri she blossomed.

Thomas manns biography book He received Czechoslovak citizenship and a passport in , even though he had never lived there. By the early s, Germany had become the strongest military, industrial, and economic power on the European continent and was involved, as many countries of the time were, in an elaborate system of alliances. He is noted for his analysis and critique of the European and German soul in the beginning of the twentieth century. The pathologic diagnosis, made by Christoph Hedinger, showed he had actually suffered a perforated iliac artery aneurysm resulting in a retroperitoneal hematoma , compression and thrombosis of the iliac vein.

During this period she wrote five books and contributed regular feature pages to Swiss, German and Italian newspapers and magazines.^[1] She remained in Capri for 32 years until the spring of , a few months after the death of Spadaro in December

She was not able to realise her desire to live in Kilchberg, Zurich with her parents, who had returned to Europe.

She spent her last years at Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in the care of Ingrid Beck-Mann, the widow of her brother Golo's adopted son, and died on 17 March She was buried in the family grave in Kilchberg.^[7]

Selected works

• Mann, Monika (). Vergangenes und Gegenwärtiges – Erinnerungen (in German).

  Munich: Kindler. ISBN&#;.

• Mann, Monika (). Vergangenes und Gegenwärtiges – Erinnerungen (in German) (Paperback&#;ed.). Reinbek, Hamburg: Rowohlt. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
• English translation by Reid, Frances F.; Hein, Ruth (). Past and Present – Recollections. New York: St Martin's Press.
• Der Start.
  Thomas manns biography children Joseph Campbell also stated in an interview with Bill Moyers that Mann was one of his mentors. Knopf publishing house was introduced to Mann by H. Short stories [ edit ]. Michigan Quarterly Review.

  Ein Tagebuch. Steinklopfer-Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck

• Tupfen im All. Hegner, Köln/Olten
• Wunder der Kindheit. Bilder und Impressionen. Hegner, Köln/Olten
• Der letzte Häftling. Eine wahre Legende in onore eines (letzten) Komponisten. Lemke, Lohhof
• Das fahrende Haus.
  Thomas manns biography wikipedia Buddenbrooks Mann's early literary career was marked by success, with his first novel published by Samuel Fischer, a renowned literary firm that still upholds a high standard in German literature. Legacy [ edit ]. Bick'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Novellas [ edit ].

  Aus dem Leben einer Weltbürgerin. Hrsg. with an epilogue by Karin Andert. Rowohlt, Reinbek , ISBN&#; (Interviews, Texte und Briefe)

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