Thomas Mann and His Children – The Mann Letters Across Six Decades

Thomas Mann and His Children – The Mann Letters Across Six Decades

Thomas Mann was deeply immersed in his literary work. When the Nobel laureate did engage with family life, he did so with humor and curiosity. Katia Mann managed everything, advising, encouraging, sending money, and sometimes sharp words-often directed at Monika, the daughter who remained on the margins. Erika, Klaus, Golo, Monika, Michael, and Elisabeth Mann: six children searching for their place in a world they had to flee because of Hitler.

Their letters reveal political struggle and writing, love and jealousy, success, addiction, and misfortune.

As part of our thematic workshops “150 Years of Thomas Mann & Rainer Maria Rilke,” we will explore selected letters exchanged between members of the Mann family.