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The Mann family ( , ; ) is the most famous German
novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...
s' dynasty.
History
Originally the Manns were merchants, allegedly already in the 16th century in
Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
, documented since 1611 in
Parchim
Parchim (; Mecklenburgisch: ''Parchen'') is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is the capital of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district. It was the birthplace of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, to whom a monument was erected in 1876.
Found ...
, since 1713 in
Rostock
Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, c ...
and since 1775 in
Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...
. There they became wealthy grain merchants, a
Hanseatic family and as such members of the small ruling class of the
Free City of Lübeck
The Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck) was a city-state from 1226 to 1937, in what is now the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
History
Imperial Free City and the Hanseatic Le ...
, a city republic and state of the
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...
. The symbol in the family's
coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central ele ...
is
Mercury
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* Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun
* Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg
* Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
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Companies
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, the ancient god of commerce (as well as of eloquence).
The family's most famous member is
Nobel Prize for Literature
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, ...
laureate
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novella ...
, who portrayed his own family and social class in the novel ''
Buddenbrooks
''Buddenbrooks'' () is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseaten (class), Hanseatic ...
''. In 1877, Thomas Mann's father
Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann
Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novella ...
was elected
Senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
of Lübeck (corresponding to presiding minister of a government office in other German states).
Lineage
* Johann Siegmund Mann (1761–1848),
Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...
merchant, married Anna Catharina Grotjan (1766–1842)
** Johann Siegmund Mann jr. (1797–1863), Lübeck merchant, married Emilie Wunderlich (1806–1833), second marriage from 1837 to Elisabeth Marty (1811–1890)
***
Marie Elisabeth Amalia Mann (1838–1917), married
Ernst Elfeld (1829–1912),
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
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merchant; married secondly to Gustav Haag,
Esslinger merchant
**** Olga Catharina Elisabeth Elfeld
**** Siegmund Christian Carl Elfeld
**** Alice Haag
**** Ewald Siegmund Henry Haag
*** Johannes Mann (1842–1844)
*** Olga Marie Mann (1845–1886), married Gustav Sievers,
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
merchant
***
Friedrich Wilhelm Lebrecht Mann (1847–1926)
***
Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (1840–1891), Lübeck merchant and senator, married
Júlia da Silva Bruhns
Júlia da Silva Bruhns (August 14, 1851March 11, 1923) was a German-Brazilian writer. She was the wife of the Lübeck senator and grain merchant Johann Heinrich Mann, and also mother of writers Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann.
Biography
Júlia ...
(1851–1923)
****
Luiz Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), author, president of the fine poetry division of the
Prussian Academy of Arts
The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: ''Preußische Akademie der Künste'') was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and late ...
, married Maria Kanová (1886–1947), divorced 1930, married from 1939 to
Nelly Kröger
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, actor and entrepreneur. He embarked on his music career with the hip hop group St. Lunatics in 1993 and signed to Universal ...
(1898–1944)
*****
Carla Maria Henriette Leonie Mann (1916–1986), married
Ludvík Aškenazy
Ludvik Ashkenazy ( cs, Ludvík Aškenazy; 24 February 1921 in Český Těšín, Czechoslovakia – 18 March 1986 in Bolzano, Italy) was a Czech writer and journalist. He was born into a Jewish family in Stanisławów, then part of the Second Rep ...
(1921–1986), author
****** (born 1948), director
******* Hannah Mann (born 1980)
******* Jenny Lucia Mann (born 1983)
****** Ludvik Mann-Aškenazy (born 1956), film maker
****
Paul Thomas Mann (1875–1955),
Nobel Prize for Literature
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, holder = Annie Ernaux (2022)
, location = Stockholm, Sweden
, year = 1901
, ...
laureate, married
Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim (1883–1980)
*****
Erika Mann
Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (9 November 1905 – 27 August 1969) was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann.
Erika lived a bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and became a critic of National Socialism. After Hitler came to power ...
(1905–1969), author, married
Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens (; 22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg ...
(1899–1963), actor and director; married secondly to
Wystan H. Auden (1907–1973), poet
*****
Klaus Mann
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann (18 November 1906 – 21 May 1949) was a German writer and dissident. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann, with whom he maintained a lifelong close relationship, and Golo ...
(1906–1949), author, editor, journalist
*****
Gottfried Golo Mann (1909–1994), historian, author
****** Hans Beck-Mann (adopted son) (died 1986)
*****
Monika Mann Monika Mann (7 June 1910 – 17 March 1992) was a German 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.
She trained as a ...
(1910–1992), author, married Jenö Lányi (1902–1940), art historian
*****
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Veronika Mann Borgese, (24 April 1918 – 8 February 2002) was an internationally recognized expert on maritime law and policy and the protection of the environment. Called "the mother of the oceans", she has received the Order o ...
(1918–2002), author, married
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist, literary critic, Germanist, poet, playwright and academic naturalized American.
Biography
During the academic year 1899-1900, under pressure from ...
(1882–1952)
****** Angelica Borgese (born 1940), physicist
****** Dominica Borgese (born 1944), biologist
*****
Michael Thomas Mann (1919–1977), professor of German literature, married Gret Moser (1916–2007)
****** (born 1940), professor of psychology, married Christine Heisenberg (daughter of
Werner Heisenberg
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)
******* Stefan Mann (born 1968), economist, married Kristina Zschiegner (born 1964)
******** Lukas Mann (born 1994)
******** Julia Mann (born 1996)
******** Konstantin Mann (born 1998)
****** Anthony Mann (born 1942)
****** Raju Mann (adopted daughter) (born 1963)
******* Juliet Mann Ward (born 1999) daughter
****
Julia Elisabeth Therese Mann (1877–1927), married Josef Löhr (1862–1922), banker
***** Eva Maria Elisabeth Löhr (1901–1968), married Hans Bohnenberger (1901–1989), bank employee
***** Rosa Marie Julia Löhr (1907–1994), married Friedrich Alder (1914–1942), gardener
***** Ilse Marie Julia Löhr (born 1907)
****
Carla Augusta Olga Maria Mann (1881–1910), actress
****
Karl Viktor Mann (1890–1949), economist, married Magdalena Nelly Kilian (1895–1962)
Dohm-Mann family tree
The Dohm-Mann family tree contains a number of famous writers, musicians and actors. This
family tree
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Representations of ...
is not complete but is focused on showing the relationship of the well-known members of the family.
Research
TMI Research
The metadatabase TMI-Research
brings together archival materials and library holdings of the network "Thomas Mann International". The network was founded in 2017 by the five houses Buddenbrookhaus/Heinrich-und-Thomas-Mann-Zentrum (Lübeck), the
Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus (Munich), the Thomas Mann Archive of the ETH Zurich (Zurich/Switzerland), the
Thomas Mann House
The Thomas Mann House (in German: ''Thomas-Mann-Haus'') in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California is the former residence of Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann, who lived there with his family during his exile from 1942 un ...
(Los Angeles/USA) and the Thomo Manno kultūros centras/Thomas Mann Culture Centre (Nida/Lithuania). The houses stand for the main stations of Thomas Mann's life and his family. The platform, which is hosted by
ETH Zurich
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, ac ...
, allows researches in the collections of the network partners across all houses. The database is freely accessible and contains over 165,000 records on letters, original editions, photographs, monographs and essays on Thomas Mann and the Mann family.
Adaptations
Heinrich Breloer
Heinrich Breloer (, born 17 February 1942 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German author and film director. He has mainly worked on docudramas related to modern German history and has received many awards. Breloer's 2005 docudrama ''Speer und Er'' was descr ...
wrote and directed the 2001 miniseries ''
Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman
''Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman'' (; ''The Manns – Novel of a Century'') is a 2001 German Docudrama- miniseries directed by Heinrich Breloer.
The miniseries is divided in three parts and tells the story of the Mann family, a family of fam ...
'', which won the
International Emmy Award for Best TV Movie or Miniseries.
Literature
* Naumann, Uwe (ed.): ''Die Kinder der Manns. Ein Familienalbum''. Reinbek, 2005.
* Stübbe, Michael: ''Die Manns. Genealogie einer deutschen Schriftstellerfamilie''. Degener & Co, 2004.
* Marianne Krüll: ''Im Netz der Zauberer''. Fischer, 1999.
* Hans Wißkirchen: ''Die Familie Mann''. Rowohlt, 1999.
* Jindrich Mann: "Prag, poste restante. Eine unbekannte Geschichte der Familie Mann". Rowohlt Verlag 2007.
* ''Die Manns – Genealogie einer deutschen Schriftstellerfamilie'' in
Deutsches Familienarchiv Bd. 145,
Degener & Co., Insingen 2005.
References
{{Thomas Mann
Hanseatic families
German families