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Golo Mann: Biographie

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Golo Mann neu entdecken!
Golo Mann – berühmter Sohn, Emigrant, Gelehrter und scharfsinniger Analytiker im politischen Spannungsfeld zweier Kontinente.
Zu Beginn des krisengeschüttelten 20. Jahrhunderts hineingeboren in eine der prominentesten Familien dieser Zeit, aufgewachsen in der Weimarer Republik, war er ein früher Kritiker des Nationalsozialismus. Die Emigration führte ihn über Frankreich und die Schweiz in die USA. Nach seiner zögerlichen Rückkehr nach Europa folgte mit dem »Wallenstein« und der »Deutschen Geschichte« die späte Anerkennung des Historikers, der sich bis zu seinem Tod 1994 kontrovers und unabhängig in die Geschicke der Bundesrepublik einmischte.

560 pages, Hardcover

First published June 19, 2009

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January 13, 2023
Lahme schildert Golo Mann in genauen Einzelheiten seiner Person und seinem beruflichen Werdegang, stets eingeschränkt durch den übergroßen Vater. Interessant auch die Einblicke in die gesamte Familie von seiner Sicht aus. Diese ergaben sich auch schon aus seinem Buch Erinnerungen an eine Jugend in Deutschland, was ich zuvor gelesen habe.
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October 31, 2022
Golo Mann; the hidden gem of the Mann-mafia, a famous historian, and one of the most important intellectuals in post-ww2 Germany. Good biography by T. Lahme, but one should also consider reading Mann's books "eine Jugend in Deutschland" and "Lehrjahre in Frankreich". Reich-Ranickis one hour video about Golo Mann and his family is recommendable as well.
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June 26, 2025
Very sensitively written, this book paints a complex picture of Golo Mann. It delves into the difficulties of being the son of a famous father without reducing Golo Mann to this aspect of his life (as many others have tried to do). Golo emerges as a man who pursued his own style of narrative history, culminating in his books on German history in the 19th and 20th century and the Wallenstein biography. There is a lot of interesting detail such as the tensions between Mann and the "Frankfurter Schule" of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer (whom Mann called "Lumpen" in an interview because they scuppered his chances of a professorship by spreading information of his homosexuality). Also, the break with his academic teacher Karl Jaspers over Hannah Ahrendt's Eichmann book is analysed carefully. Lastly, Mann's role in supporting the opening to to East in 1970s and the acceptance of the post-war division between the two Germanies is extensively discussed. Mann's private life is dealt with sensitively.
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