It's an open question who would have wanted to be the child of German novelist Thomas Mann, but six offspring knew the mixed privilege. Looking back, in many ways the second of them, Klaus Heinrich ...

A sibling survivor story of uncommon personal and political breadth, docudrama "Escape to Life" charts the tumultuous lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, talented, gay eldest siblings of German literary ...

Der Spiegel recently described the great German writers Thomas and Heinrich Mann and their progeny thus: “egocentric and self-deprecating, half-bound to one another, sexually irregular, the ...

Klaus Mann, the second of the six children of novelist Thomas Mann, was born in Munich in 1906. Thomas Mann came from a long line of Hanseatic merchants; Klaus’s mother was from a rich and cultured ...

Frederic Spotts chronicles all the ways Klaus attempted to better his father, but never quite managed it in Cursed Legacy You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have ...

This book was written in German in 1929 by the son of Thomas Mann, and with an introduction by Jean Cocteau, who was a friend of the illustrious literary family. It has been translated and provided ...