"DEAR MISTRESS HEART"
HOLGER PILS IN CONVERSATION WITH TILMANN LAHME

The Jewish bookseller Ida Herz was Thomas Mann's first archivist and his most loyal fan. The famous author, in turn, wrote her private letters and even portrayed her in "Doctor Faustus". Over 400 letters document this unusual friendship - which ended in bitter disappointment. It is the last previously unpublished correspondence by Thomas Mann that can now be discovered: Holger Pils, director of the Munich Poetry Cabinet and member of the board of the German Thomas Mann Society, has unearthed this treasure (S. Fischer).

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"THOMAS MANN. A LIFE"
AN EVENING WITH TILMANN LAHME

Nobel Prize winner and celebrated genius: Thomas Mann is the literary magician of the 20th century. Tilmann Lahme (Leuphana University Lüneburg) tells the life story of the "magician" as it has never been told before: with new insights and unpublished sources, including unknown diary passages, letters to his best childhood friend and Susan Sontag's now-discovered essay "Bei Thomas Mann". In doing so, he gives us what we have long been waiting for, namely finally "the whole Thomas Mann" in the mirror of his time (dtv).