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Simple and digital: launch of the ‘Virtual Reading Room’

Additional tours for the 150th birthday of Thomas Mann

New anniversary platform to mark 150 years of Thomas Mann

The estate library of Katia Mann

Photo of Katia Mann

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

Photo of Katia 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).

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Events of the Literary Archives

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Holdings in the archive

  • Thomas Mann's literary remains
  • The author's personal library
  • The set-up of his final study

Virtual Reading Room

Thomas Manns Augen

A growing number of manuscripts are freely accessible in our virtual reading room.

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E-Pics Thomas Mann Archive

E-Pics Thomas-Mann-Archiv

Image database with approx. 2000 photographs on Thomas Mann free of license.

Private Library Online

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)