Thomas Mann manuscripts online
Via the "Archive database online", the Thomas Mann Archives provide access to further original documents of the author.
In consultation with the community of heirs and their representative, Professor Frido Mann, the Thomas Mann Archives and external page S. Fischer Verlag are publishing Thomas Mann’s original documents online, before the copyright runs out. The online resources now contain documents relating to “The Magic Mountain” and “Reflections of an Nonpolitical Man”, as well as letters from 1924 to 1932.
An overview of the currently available documents can be found on the website of the Thomas Mann Archives. You can also read the latest article at the external page literary online magazine of the S. Fischer Verlag.
Public tour for the online resources
This year, the public tour of the Thomas Mann Archives will also focus on the new online manuscripts. On Tuesday, 20 October 2020, a talk on the subject will be held between the archive director, Dr Katrin Bedenig, and the Thomas Mann editor at S. Fischer Verlag, Roland Spahr. All the relevant information on the event is available via the event page.
Over the course of the coming years, more digitised resources from the personal papers of Thomas Mann will be published alongside the meta data for all of the personal papers, which is already available.
The Thomas Mann Archives at ETH Zurich preserve the literary works and personal papers of Thomas Mann. They have made them available for researchers and the public since the archives’ foundation in 1956. The holdings are constantly updated.