Heinrich Mann

Biography

In 1889, it works like apprentice in a bookstore with Dresden then like volunteer in the publisher S. Fischer Verlag with Berlin of 1890 with 1892. With the advent of the Weimar Republic, it publishes political tests and criticisms cultural.

In 1931, Heinrich Mann becomes president of the section Poésie of the Prussian Académie of Arts. In 1933, after the accession of Hitler to the capacity, it is obliged to leave the Academy.

It then leaves the Germany before even the Incendie of the Reichstag and flees in France (Paris and Nice) then in 1940 is exiled with the the United States while passing by the Spain and the Portugal by the network of Varian Fry. This period spent abroad is not very productive.

In 1949, it is named president of the German Academy of Arts of East Berlin. He dies the following year in California, in loneliness and desilvered, before to have been able to carry out the return planned of the United States towards the German Democratic republic.

Heinrich Mann rests now with the cemetery Dorotheenstädtischen Friedhof with Berlin after its body was repatriated there of the United States in 1961.

A price of literature exists in its honor: the Heinrich-Mann-Preis .

Works

In einer Familie , 1894
Im Schlaraffenland , 1900
Die Göttinnen oder die drei Romance der Herzogin von Ose , 1903. Trilogy.
Professor Unrat oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen , 1905. Adapted for the cinema in 1930 by Josef von Sternberg under the title the blue Angel with Emil Jannings and Marlène Dietrich.
Zwischen den Rassen , 1907
Die kleine Stadt , 1909
Die Armen , 1917
Der Untertan , 1919; filmed in 1951 by Wolfgang Staudte, with Werner Peters in the role titrates
Die Jugend of Königs Henri Four , 1935
Die Vollendung of Königs Henri Four , 1938
Geist und Tat , 1931. Test.

See too

Heinrich Mann (1871 - 1950) . ED. by Walter Fähnders/Walter Delabar. Berlin 2005 (Memoria 4)
Literature of German language
Thomas Mann

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