Golo Mann (27 March1909 - 7 April1994Leverkusen), was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann. March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Map of Germany showing Leverkusen Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, philanthropist and essayist, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual and an underlying...
He was born in Munich and educated at the Odenwaldschule and the University of Heidelberg. He was a popular historian, although at times criticized for his unscientific, fictional approach. Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ...
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1947 Friedrich von Gentz
1958 Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
1964 Wilhelm II
1970 Von Weimar nach Bonn. Fünfzig Jahre deutsche Republik
1971 Wallenstein
1986 Erinnerungen und Gedanken. Eine Jugend in Deutschland
In 1925 GoloMann was haunted by a severe mental crisis that overshadowed the rest of his life: In those days the doubt entered my life, or rather: broke in with tremendous power (…) I was seized by darkest melancholy.
GoloMann intended to finish his universal studies in Hamburg and Göttingen, but dark clouds were arriving over Germany.
GoloMann nevertheless perceived the emergence of the students‘ movement as a heavy threat for democracy.
Published on the tenth anniversary of GoloMann's death, Bitterli's book is the first thorough biography of the well-known German historian and author.
Born the third of six siblings in a difficult family with a dominating, famous father, GoloMann's life was profoundly influenced by the need to establish himself outside Thomas Mann's long shadow.
GoloMann spent almost three decades in exile from Germany, writing and working as a professor of history in Switzerland, France and the United States.
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