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Famous for his prose such as 'Death in Venice', 'The
Magic Mountain' ('Der Zauberberg'), his 'Joseph' trilogy
and early 'Buddenbrooks', a novel for which he was
awarded the Nobel prize, Thomas Mann was always a prolific
author.
The situation in Nazi Germany forced him to emigrate to the
States.
His novel 'Death in Venice' was turned into a major film by
Luciano Visconti and into an opera by Benjamin
Britten.
His brother Heinrich Mann was an acclaimed writer,
too. His novel 'Professor Unrat' was rewritten into a successfull
film: 'The Blue Angel' ('Der
blaue Engel') starring Marlene Dietrich.
Lübeck, Thomas Mann's hometown and an inspiration for
his novel 'Buddenbrooks', features a literary museum
with a focus on Thomas and Heinrich Mann called the Buddenbrook
House ('Buddenbrookhaus'). Two of the rooms are styled as
described in Thomas Mann's masterpiece.
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