Der Kopf

by Heinrich Mann

Rare book

Paperback

First published January 1, 1933

About the author

A German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933.

Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Júlia da Silva Bruhns. He was the elder brother of Thomas Mann. His father came from a patrician grain merchant family and was a Senator of the Hanseatic city. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Munich, where Heinrich began his career as a freier Schriftsteller or free novelist.

Reviews

[Peter Jakobs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Third and final part of Heinrich Mann‘s Kaiserreich trilogy, this time about its leadership: Reichskanzler, industry, military - and how their interest lead to World War 1.
Overall not as convincing as the trilogy‘s first part „Der Untertan“ about the bourgois class.