Florian Illies: Wenn die Sonne untergeht. Familie Mann in Sanary

In the year of Thomas Mann's 150th birthday, Florian Illies, the "great storyteller" ("Süddeutsche Zeitung"), transports us to the scorching hot summer of 1933, when the political situation in Europe and that of the Mann family came to a head: Thomas and Katia Mann and their six children were stranded in the dreamy harbor town of Sanary-sur-Mer on the French Mediterranean after adventurous escapes in June. And now they know neither forwards nor backwards. One place, one family, three months at thirty degrees - Florian Illies tells of the grief over the loss of home and possessions, the fear of Nazi looting, of melancholy, defiance and passion.
A family on the brink. A time out of joint. And in the summer winds of Sanary, Klaus and Erika and their father Thomas are put to the test: they want to force him to break with Germany. But instead, the siblings almost break up with him.

Florian Illies, born in 1971, studied art history in Bonn and Oxford. He was head of the features section of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung", managed the Grisebach auction house, is currently co-editor of "ZEIT" and works as a curator. Illies founded a new genre with his worldwide success "1913: The Summer of the Century". His most recent books are "Liebe in Zeiten des Hasses", a book about the 1920s and 1930s, and "Zauber der Stille", a book about Caspar David Friedrich. The art podcast "Augen zu" with Florian Illies and Giovanni di Lorenzo is one of the most listened to podcasts in the German language.

In cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation/Thuringia regional office