biography
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| (1871–1950)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Lübeck, N Germany, the brother of Thomas Mann. After the death of his wealthy father, he became financially independent and settled in Berlin and France. He is best known for the macabre novel, Professor Unrat (1904), describing the moral degradation of an outwardly respectable schoolmaster, which was translated and filmed as The Blue Angel (1930). Other works include Die kleine Stadt (1909, The Little Town), in which he expressed the corrupting force of authority and subservience in fin-de-siècle Germany. He was deprived of his German citizenship by the Nazis (1933), and went into exile in France, where he continued to write novels and an autobiography (1945–6). |
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