House of Exile by Evelyn Juers is a "collective biography" of the artists and intellectuals whose lives were uprooted, torn apart or annihilated by the Nazi regime. At the center of this unusual book ...

Long before Thomas Mann achieved fame as a writer – and earned a Nobel Prize for Literature – his older brother Heinrich was already a notorious novelist. His satire Der Untertan (literally: The ...

You can visit all the addresses in the course of a long day. Bertolt Brecht lived in a two-story clapboard house on Twenty-sixth Street, in Santa Monica. The novelist Heinrich Mann resided a few ...

Frans Werfel, Czechoslovakian novelist, and Heinrich Mann, German novelist, brother of Thomas Mann, were among fifteen leading European writers and intellectuals, Jews and Christians, who arrived ...

The German television director Heinrich Breloer has made a series of three television programmes examining the history of Germany’s most celebrated literary family—the Manns. No other family so ...

Even after all that, the Republicans, or what was left of them, could hardly size up the extent of hatred that befell them. The fundamental reason for this lack of orientation is that the Republicans ...

Diederich Heßling is a man who bends over backward for those above him and kicks and spits on those below him. Heinrich Mann's "The Loyal Subject" is an amusing, merciless and prophetic analysis of ...

In 1916, the novelist Thomas Mann wrote to his friend Ernst Bertram that he believed the tragedy of Germany was "symbolised and personified by my brother and myself". He may have been correct. The ...

The ZfGerm discusses problems of the history of German-language literature and contemporary literature, explores new theoretical approaches and actively participates in discussions about the ...