For the MEP, see Erika Mann (politician). For the architect from Kenya, see Erica Mann.
Erika Mann
Mann c. 1938
Born
Erika Julia Hedwig Mann
(1905-11-09)9 November 1905
Munich, German Empire
Died
27 August 1969(1969-08-27) (aged 63)
Zürich, Switzerland
Resting place
Kilchberg cemetery, Zürich
Occupation(s)
Writer, war correspondent, actress
Spouses
Gustaf Gründgens
(m. 1926–1929)
W. H. Auden
(m. 1935–1969)
Parent(s)
Thomas Mann Katia Mann
Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (9 November 1905 – 27 August 1969) was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann.
Erika lived a bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and became a critic of National Socialism. After Hitler came to power in 1933, she moved to Switzerland, and married the poet W. H. Auden, purely to obtain a British passport and so avoid becoming stateless when the Germans cancelled her citizenship. She continued to attack Nazism, most notably with her 1938 book School for Barbarians, a critique of the Nazi education system.
During World War II, Mann worked for the BBC and became a war correspondent attached to the Allied forces after D-Day. She attended the Nuremberg trials before moving to America to support her exiled parents. Her criticisms of American foreign policy led to her being considered for deportation. After her parents moved to Switzerland in 1952, she also settled there. She wrote a biography of her father and died in Zürich in 1969.
Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (9 November 1905 – 27 August 1969) was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann. Erika lived a bohemian...
nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of ErikaMann (with whom he maintained a lifelong close relationship) and Golo Mann. Klaus moved to the USA to escape Nazism...
brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of Mann's six children – ErikaMann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann – also became significant German writers...
as if the author had thrown an incendiary bomb into his own house. — ErikaMann, Mein Vater, der Zauberer [My father, the Magician] Modern literary criticism...
outlived three of her children (Klaus, Erika and Michael) and her husband. She died in Kilchberg near Zürich. Thomas Mann made a sort of "portrait" of her in...
Literature laureate, married Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim (1883–1980) ErikaMann (1905–1969), author, married Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963), actor and director;...
short book – on ErikaMann, a daughter – probably her father's favourite daughter – of Thomas Mann. The essay was entitled "ErikaMann. Eine jüdische Tochter":...
uncle was novelist Heinrich Mann. Her brothers and sisters are Klaus, Erika (wife of W. H. Auden), Golo, Monika and Michael Mann. She was of Jewish descent...
essays jointly written by the German writers Erika and Klaus Mann (daughter and son, respectively, of Thomas Mann). The book is about the world and culture...
Golo, and this name was adopted. He had an elder sister, ErikaMann, an elder brother, Klaus Mann, and three younger siblings, Monika, Elisabeth and Michael...
In 1930, she made contact with Erika and Klaus Mann (daughter and son of Thomas Mann). She was fascinated by Erika's charm and self-confidence. A relationship...
July 4, 1920. In: Thomas Mann: Briefe I: 1889–1936, ed. ErikaMann. Fischer 1979. p. 176f. Searls, Damion, Introduction to Mann, Thomas, New Selected Stories...
rooms served as bedrooms for Thomas and Katia Mann and their children. Since 1948, their daughter ErikaMann also lived in the house. There is an interesting...
attackers initially opened fire there) and German Social Democrat MEP ErikaMann were hiding in different parts of the building. Also reported present...
Der Zauberberg, pronounced [deːɐ̯ ˈt͡saʊ̯bɐˌbɛʁk] ) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be...
Kracauer, Else Lasker-Schüler, Emil Ludwig, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, ErikaMann, Thomas Mann, Ludwig Marcuse, Robert Musil, Robert Neumann, Erich Maria...
world in a different light from the German investigator". ErikaMann, the daughter of Thomas Mann, wrote an exposé of the Rust system in 1938, School for...
love life. In 1937, she and Paul Bowles were introduced to each other by ErikaMann, and in the following year (1938), they were married and went on a honeymoon...
authors, "Sheaves from Sagaland"; a prose letter to "E. M. Auden" (E.M. was ErikaMann), which included his poems "Detective Story" and "O who can ever praise...
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