Golo Mann

Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann , known as Golo (March 27th 1909, Munich - April 7th 1994, Leverkusen), is a Historien, writer and German Philosophe.

Life and work

Third wire of Thomas and Katia Mann, Golo Mann is the young brother of Erika and Klaus Mann and the elder one of Monika, Elisabeth and Michael. From 1927 to 1932, he studies the Philosophie and the Histoire with Munich and Berlin, then with the Université of Heidelberg, where he passes a thesis on To the notion of the private individual, me and the individual one at Hegel .

Exiled in 1933, it passes in Suisse, before coming in France, where he is reader of German history to the National university of Saint-Cloud, then lecturer to the Université from Rennes. From 1937 to 1940, he is writer with Zurich.

In May 1940, it engages in the French Army, then it is interned like the majority of the Germans antifascists remaining in France. He escapes by the the Pyrenees with his uncle Heinrich, the wife of this last, Nelly Kröger, Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler-Werfel, and manages to gain the the United States, where he teaches in various universities as from 1942, and until 1958. This year, it completes its German Histoire of 19th and 20th centuries , today still traditional on the subject.

In 1958, Golo Mann turns over in Europe. He teaches the political history with the Université of Stuttgart. In 1960, he becomes full professor of political sciences; he gives up the station in 1964. In 1965, it receives the price Schiller of Mannheim and, in 1968, the price Büchner. In 1971 one of its most remarkable works appears, its biography on Wallenstein, considered, because of its literary quality, like a chief of work of historiography.

In the years 1970 and 1980, Golo Mann belongs to the great intellectual figures of the Federal republic. Although generally regarded as conservative, it takes party in the years 1970 for the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt. However, it supports later Franz Josef Strauß.

Golo Mann dies on April 7th, 1994, in the arms of Ingrid Beck-Mann, the woman of her adoptive son Hans Beck. It is buried, according to its will, in the family vault of the cemetery of Kilchberg.

Price and distinctions

Price Schiller of Mannheim, 1964
Price Georg Büchner, 1968
Ring Lessing, with the literary prize of the German freemasons, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1972
Honorary doctor of the University of Nantes and the Order of Merit, 1973
Price of memory Schiller, 1977
Price Ernst Robert Curtius of the essay writer, 1984
Price Goethe of Frankfurt and literary prize Friedrich Schiedel, 1985
Literary prize of Bodensee and honorary doctor of the University of Bath, in England, 1987

Works

Friedrich von Gentz , 1947
Of the Spirit of America , 1954
German History of 19th and 20th centuries , 1958
Guillaume II , 1964
Of Weimar to Bonn. Fifty of years of German Republic , 1970
Wallenstein , 1971
Memories and thoughts. A youth in Germany , 1986
Wir ale sind, was to wir gelesen , 1989
Knowledge and mourning , 1992

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