Thomas Mann’s novel “The Magic Mountain” turns one hundred. To mark the anniversary, the Thomas Mann Archive is producing a video series that places “The Magic Mountain” in the technological-historical context of ETH Zurich and points to its contemporary relevance.
In the Thomas Mann Archive, in addition to extensive holdings of letters from and to Katia Mann, her bequeathed library has also been preserved. Learn more
Holdings of Katia, Erika, Monika and Elisabeth Mann
The Thomas Mann Archive contains not only the author's extensive correspondence but also numerous letters from and to his wife Katia Mann (4783 individual items) and his daughters Erika (298), Monika (180) and Elisabeth Mann (235).
Database with digitized reading traces in Thomas Mann's private library. Copyright-free books are accessible online.
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"The problem of cultural democracy, however, is that of the standard, the elevation of the standard: [...] because it is an intelligent-advanced social form of pronounced sensitivity[…]." (Romane der Welt, GW X, 675)