From now on, you can easily explore the holdings of the ETH Zurich University Archives, the Thomas Mann Archives and the Max Frisch Archives online. The ‘Virtual Reading Rooms’ simplify archive research and offer expanded access options.
To mark the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birth, the Thomas Mann Archive is offering additional tours of the ETH main building. Register to find out more about the writer in his many roles – now also at weekends.
To mark the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birthday on 6 June 2025, the Thomas Mann International network, which includes the Thomas Mann Archive of the ETH Library, is launching an anniversary platform.
In the Thomas Mann Archive, in addition to extensive holdings of letters from and to Katia Mann, her bequeathed library has also been preserved. Learn more
Holdings of Katia, Erika, Monika and Elisabeth Mann
The Thomas Mann Archive contains not only the author's extensive correspondence but also numerous letters from and to his wife Katia Mann (4783 individual items) and his daughters Erika (298), Monika (180) and Elisabeth Mann (235).
Database with digitized reading traces in Thomas Mann's private library. Copyright-free books are accessible online.
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"The problem of cultural democracy, however, is that of the standard, the elevation of the standard: [...] because it is an intelligent-advanced social form of pronounced sensitivity[…]." (Romane der Welt, GW X, 675)