Volker Weidermann „Mann vom Meer. Thomas Mann und die Liebe seines Lebens“
For Thomas Mann, the sea was throughout his life the place of longing and the promising pull into the depths. German romanticism and a longing for death - and a place of liberation from the conventions, the political, literary, and erotic constraints of bourgeois life. Place of freedom and the true self.
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Volker Weidermann auf einem Hocker sitzend.
Perhaps it all begins where his mother experiences the happiness of childhood: in the Brazilian jungle, in a big, bright house by the sea. At the age of seven she comes to Travemünde, to the German dark cold, with a longing that remains. Her son Thomas grows up on the Baltic Sea, in Lübeck, but as soon as he can, he goes south, travels to Italy, to the Mediterranean, falls in love with young men, but follows the conventions of the time and marries Katia. Years later: the walk into exile. In California, on the Pacific, he becomes once again another: he fights against Hitler, for democracy, for freedom, and takes American citizenship. After his death, his favorite daughter Elisabeth lives on his legacy as a world-renowned ocean explorer in her utopian oceanic politics.
Volker Weidermann writes with lightness and humor, with warmth and great clarity about the Nobel Prize winner, about his longings and his loves. His book is the story of a German century, it is the biography of a great writer and his family, but above all it is a novel about the dark, the shiny, the threatening, the enticing, the liberating - about Thomas Mann and the sea.
An event by Literatur LIVE in cooperation with Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag, Thalia Buchhandlung and TIPI AM KANZLERAMT.
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