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Deutsche Ansprache: Ein Appell an die Vernunft
Thomas Mann war nicht unbedingt dafür bekannt, sich politisch eindeutig zu positionieren – bis die NSDAP bei den Reichstagswahlen im September 1930 mit knapp 20 Prozent der Stimmen zweitstärkste Kraft wurde. Einen Monat später hielt er seine mutige Ansprache als »Appell an die Vernunft«, in der Hoffnung, dass sich alles doch noch zum Guten wenden ließe.
In seinem Nachwort stellt Jens Bisky heraus, in welcher Situation Mann sprach, wie auf die Ansprache reagiert wurde, und zieht Parallelen zu Bürgerlichkeit und Vernunft heute.
In seinem Nachwort stellt Jens Bisky heraus, in welcher Situation Mann sprach, wie auf die Ansprache reagiert wurde, und zieht Parallelen zu Bürgerlichkeit und Vernunft heute.
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62 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 12, 2025
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Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
See also:
Serbian: Tomas Man
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
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October 12, 2025
Leider ein passender Moment das zu lesen. Das Nachwort ist sehr hilfreich, um den Text im Kontext zu situieren und einen kritischen Blick auf den Text zu werfen. Es ist schade, dass das deutsche Bürgertum sich nicht stark genug, wie von Thomas Mann vorgeschlagen, mit der Sozialdemokratie verbunden hat.
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