Thomas Mann - Ein Leben

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Thomas Mann - A life
Reading and talk with Tilmann Lahme

For his 150th birthday in June 2025: the whole of Thomas Mann and his real life, captivatingly told, described and explained with new sources by Tilmann Lahme: Thomas Mann's lifelong struggle with love, life and literature.

He is the literary magician of the twentieth century: Nobel Prize winner and celebrated genius and at the same time as unhappy as one can be. He loves and is not allowed to love, the ideas of his time stand in his way. What a drive for great literature - and what a life of suffering. Since his early worldwide success with "Buddenbrooks" and two decades later with "The Magic Mountain", all doors have opened for him, right up to the White House. No other German voice fights against Hitler as audibly as his, no other piles up honors like his. His wife Katia and his six children surround him like a fortress. But the abyss is always just a step away.

Tilmann Lahme, born in 1974, is a literary historian and author. He has worked as an editor in the features section of the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung' and taught as a professor of literary studies at the University of Lüneburg. Lahme is the author of numerous publications on the Mann family, including a highly acclaimed biography of Golo Mann (2009) and the bestseller "Die Manns. History of a Family" (2015).

Organizer: Musik- und Kongresshalle Lübeck in cooperation with the Buddenbrookhaus

Tickets are available in advance for €12.00, concessions €10.00 incl. booking fees in the MUK ticket store.

Copyright: Asja Caspari