Thomas Mann und das Recht

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Law and injustice play just as decisive a role in Thomas Mann's work as they did in his life. His work ranges from the family novel "Buddenbrooks" (1901) to the multi-part Joseph novel (1933/43) and the Moses novella "The Law" (1943). The life of the Nobel Prize winner (1929) ranges from a lost trial against a thieving housemaid in 1917 to the arbitrary justice of the National Socialists in 1933. Dirk Heißerer introduces us to Thomas Mann from a rather unknown perspective.

Dr. Dirk Heißerer (born 1957) is a literary scholar, organizer of literary walks and excursions between Munich and Lake Garda(www.lit-spaz.de) and has been chairman of the Thomas Mann Forum Munich e.V.(www.tmfm.de) since 1999. He received the Schwabing Art Prize in 1993 for his book "Wo die Geister wandern. Eine Topographie der Schwabinger Bohème um 1900" and in 2009 the Thomas Mann Medal of the German Thomas Mann Society Lübeck. He has published the Thomas Mann series for the Thomas Mann Forum Munich e.V. since 2003 (currently 21 volumes).

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