Heinrich Mann - Life and work, Bibliography

Novelist, born in Lübeck, N Germany, the brother of Thomas Mann. After the death of his wealthy father, he became financially independent and settled in Berlin and France. He is best known for the macabre novel, Professor Unrat (1904), describing the moral degradation of an outwardly respectable schoolmaster, which was translated and filmed as The Blue Angel (1930). Other works include Die kleine Stadt (1909, The Little Town), in which he expressed the corrupting force of authority and subservience in fin-de-siècle Germany. He was deprived of his German citizenship by the Nazis (1933), and went into exile in France, where he continued to write novels and an autobiography (1945–6).

Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (March 27, 1871 – March 12, 1950) was a German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933.

Life and work

He was born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns and was the elder brother of Thomas Mann.

His essay on Zola and the novel Der Untertan earned him much respect during the Weimar Republic, since it satirized German society and explained how its political system had led to the First World War.

During the 1930s and later in American exile, his literary career went downhill, and eventually he died in Santa Monica, California, lonely and without much money, just months before he was to move to Soviet-occupied Germany to become president of the Prussian Academy of Arts.

Bibliography

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In einer Familie, 1894 Im Schlaraffenland, 1900 (In the Land of Cockaigne, 1929) Die Jagd nach Liebe, 1903 Professor Unrat, 1905 (Small Town Tyrant, 1944) Der Untertan (The Loyal Subject or Man of Straw), 1919*Das Kaiserreich (The Empire), 1918 – 1925 Die kleine Stadt 1909 Die Jugend des Königs Henri Quatre, 1935 Die Vollendung des Königs Henri Quatre, 1938