Julia Mann, die Mutter von Heinrich und Thomas Mann

Dagmar von Gersdorff, the successful author of Goethe's Mother, presents the first biography of Julia Mann in this book, revealing entirely new aspects of the much-discussed Mann family. A life like a novel: Julia Mann was born on the southern coast of Brazil. At eighteen, she married the consul Johann Thomas Heinrich Mann in Lübeck. In the Hanseatic city, she was a striking beauty with an exotic flair. She was the one who introduced a poetic, musically exotic element into the sober Lübeck merchant family. Her life, marked by proud highs and deep tragedies, has influenced the works of Heinrich and Thomas Mann far more than was previously known. Dagmar von Gersdorff tells for the first time the story of the woman with whom the most famous German literary dynasty began.