Buddenbrookhaus
Readers well versed in the works of author Thomas Mann (and everyone should be) might recognize this commodious, stone house with a gabled roof, recessed doorway, and leaded-glass fan over heavy double doors. This is the house Mann (1875–1955) described as the family home in “Buddenbrooks.” Mann’s grandparents lived here, and the novelist spent much of his childhood in the large, gracious rooms, a few of which have been reconstructed. Most galleries in the rebuilt and modernized interior displays photographs, letters, and documents chronicling Mann’s life, and that of his family, including their flight from Nazi Germany in 1933. Thomas’s brother, Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), also a novelist and author of “Professor Unrat,” the inspiration for the movie “The Blue Angel,” is also well memorialized. Displays are in German with English translations in small type; more accessible are video recordings of Mann and other family members, including the author’s speech in Hollywood denunciating McCarthyism and his son Klaus’s recollection of returning to bomb-shattered Munich after the war.
Readers well versed in the works of author Thomas Mann (and everyone should be) might recognize this commodious, stone house with a gabled roof, recessed doorway, and leaded-glass fan over heavy double doors. This is the house Mann (1875–1955) described as the family home in “Buddenbrooks.” Mann’s grandparents lived here, and the novelist spent much of his childhood in the large, gracious rooms, a few of which have been reconstructed. Most galleries in the rebuilt and modernized interior displays photographs, letters, and documents chronicling Mann’s life, and that of his family, including their flight from Nazi Germany in 1933. Thomas’s brother, Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), also a novelist and author of “Professor Unrat,” the inspiration for the movie “The Blue Angel,” is also well memorialized. Displays are in German with English translations in small type; more accessible are video recordings of Mann and other family members, including the author’s speech in Hollywood denunciating McCarthyism and his son Klaus’s recollection of returning to bomb-shattered Munich after the war.
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