Thomas Mann [SEP] mother
of the best-known exponents of the so-called "Exilliteratur", German literature written in exile by those who opposed the Hitler regime.
Mann's work influenced many later authors, including Heinrich Böll, Joseph Heller, Yukio Mishima, and Orhan Pamuk.
Life.
Paul Thomas Mann was born to a bourgeois family in Lübeck, the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and a grain merchant) and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns, a Brazilian woman of German and Portuguese ancestry,
" she was the inspiration for Gerda Arnoldsen and Toni Buddenbrook. In "Doktor Faustus", she became the wife of Senator Rodde. In "Tonio Kröger", she was the mother, Consuelo. In "Death in Venice", she appears as the mother of the protagonist, Gustav von Aschenbach.
Personal life.
She married Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann in 1869. She was 17, he 29. They had five children: Heinrich Mann (Luís), Thomas Mann (Paulo), Julia Mann (