The book, co-edited by Nikolai Blaumer, former program director for Thomas Mann House, and Benno Herz, the institution’s current program director, came together during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For 10 years between 1942 and 1952, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning German author, lived in a Pacific Palisades home that he had built while he and his family were exiled from their native country. Today, that house is the center for residency programs for those interested in contemplating various global issues.
Mann, who was politically outspoken, and his wife Katia, who was from a Jewish family, left Germany in 1933 following the rise of the National Socialist Party. The couple eventually made their way to the United States. While Mann’s work was banned in Germany under the Nazi regime, he attained celebrity status in the United States and the country would have an impact Mann’s own work.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Mann was part of a community that was making a big impact on the city. “In terms of L.A., on a more local level, of course, his house here became this hub for all these salons and dinners and meetings with the emigré community,” he says. “It wasn’t only writers, but also composers and filmmakers and architects. They all mingled here. They were all influenced by the city, by Hollywood, by the American way of life.
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