What is Thomas Mann?
{{nobelprize|Literature}} [[File:Thomas Mann 1937.jpg|thumb|Thomas Mann in 1937]] '''Paul Thomas Mann''' (born 6 June 1875 in [[Lübeck]]; died 12 August 1955 in [[Zürich City|Zürich]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[author]]. Mann was born in 1875, in Lübeck as son of a salesman and [[senator]] of the city of Lübeck, into a rich and [[conservatism|conservative]] family. In 1891, his father died. In 1894 Mann left school. He went to [[Munich]], were his mother and his brothers and sister had been since 1893. He worked as an [[insurance]] salesman and wrote [[poem]]s and prose. In 1898, he published his first works and began [[Die Buddenbrooks]] influenced by work of [[Arthur Schopenhauer]], published in 1901. In 1906 he married, although he was not clear about his [[sexual orientation]]. In [[World War I]], Mann agreed with the war, but not enthusiastically. In the time of the [[Weimar Republic]] he defended democratic ideas. In 1929 he won the [[Nobel Prize]] for [[literature]]. In 1933 the [[Nazi]]s burned books of his brother [[Heinrich Mann]]. Because of this both Thomas and Heinrich and their family moved to the [[United States]] in 1934. He lost his German citizenship, but got [[Czechoslovakia]]n citizenship in the [[United States]]. In 1944, he became a US citizen. He worked for the Allies in the [[radio]] during the [[World War II]]. In 1952, he had to give a talk to the [[Committee on Un-American Activities]]. He was very disappointed in the United States and returned to [[Europe]], to [[Switzerland]], in 1953. In the [[1950s]] he visited Germany sometimes. He died of [[atherosclerosis]] in [[Zürich]], [[Switzerland]]. == Works == === Novels === * Buddenbrooks - Verfall einer Familie (1901) * Königliche Hoheit (1909) * Der Zauberberg (1924) * Joseph und seine Brüder – Tetralogie (1933-1943) ** Die Geschichten Jaakobs (1933) ** Der junge Joseph (1934) ** Joseph in Ägypten (1936) ** Joseph der Ernährer (1943) * Lotte in Weimar (1939) * Doktor Faustus (1947) * Der Erwählte (1951) * Bekenntnisse des Hochsta