More than any other modernist writer, Thomas Mann (1875–1955) has remained something of a mystery. Biographers have concluded from his writings that he was an anti-Semite, a closet homosexual, a proto ...

One of the lingering mysteries about the German writer Thomas Mann is how there could have been any lingering mystery about his repressed –make that sublimated– sexual desire for beautiful young men.

What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain? Thomas Mann, from behind, 1930. Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, famously spends seven years at a tuberculosis ...

Author Thomas Mann's family - Germany's Kennedys - fascinates to this day. Biographer Tilmann Lahme tells DW why they became beacons of the struggle against Hitler - and foreshadowed the selfie era.

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize. By Celia McGee Among the ...

The German novelist and 1929 Nobel laureate in literature moved to the US during WWII. He was, however, frustrated by how the country developed under McCarthy — and his observations echo today's ...