MEPHISTO

In 1936 Klaus Mann published his most famous novel, one of the first literary texts dealing with the Third Reich. In the main character, an actor modelled closely after Gustaf Gründgens, Mann saw the symbol of a “quite histrionic, deeply untrue and unreal regime”. The book has been widely discussed ever since its publication and banished in Germany in 1966. Despite the formally still existing ban Rowohlt published the paperback edition in 1981. István Szabôs movie “Mephisto”, starring Klaus-Maria Brandauer, won an Oscar in 1982.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 17.12.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-22748-6
  • 416 Pages
  • Author: Klaus Mann

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Klaus Mann

Klaus Mann was born in Munich in 1906, the first child of Thomas and Katia Mann. He began his literary career as the enfant terrible of the Weimar Republic. After 1933 he became an important figure in the German literary elite that had been forced into exile by the Nazis. Klaus Mann’s death in 1949 in Cannes was caused by an overdose of sleeping pills.