»Thomas Mann – 100 years of the Magic Mountain. A lecture by Prof. Dr. Hans Wißkirchen«

Description

The Magic Mountain was published in November 1924. Planned by Thomas Mann as a cheerful counterpart to Death in Venice Magic Mountain was one of the great novels of classical modernism. A short visit to a Davos sanatorium turns into a seven-year stay for the protagonist Hans Castorp; the health resort becomes a stage for the European state of mind before the First World War. “After all, posterity will probably see it as a document of the European mental state and intellectual problems in the first third of the twentieth century,” is how Thomas Mann himself put it in a speech to students at Princeton University in 1939. Today the question arises as to its relevance of this novel and at the same time according to its basic democratic understanding.

Hans Wißkirchen, born in Düsseldorf in 1955, studied philosophy and German University of Marburg He received his doctorate in Marburg in 1985 with a dissertation on Thomas Mann's sources for the Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus phil. doctorate. Wißkirchen was appointed honorary professor of modern German literature University of Lübeck . He is president of the German Thomas Mann Society . The Thomas Mann Society was founded in Lübeck in 1965 by Lübeck residents and Thomas Mann friends. Since the 1970s, society has continually opened up to international science and has thus become the most important forum for Thomas Mann research in the world.

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