Julia Mann, die Mutter von Heinrich und Thomas Mann

With this book, Dagmar von Gersdorff, the successful author of Goethe's Mother, presents the first biography of Julia Mann, revealing entirely new pages in the life of the much-discussed Mann family. A life like a novel: Julia Mann was born on the south coast of Brazil. At the age of eighteen, she married the consul Johann Thomas Heinrich Mann in Lübeck. In the Hanseatic city she was a striking beauty with an exotic flair. It was she who brought a poetic, musically exotic element into the sober Lübeck merchant family. Her life, marked by both proud highlights and deep tragedy, influenced the work of Heinrich and Thomas Mann far more than was previously known. Dagmar von Gersdorff describes for the first time the life of the woman who gave birth to Germany's most famous dynasty of writers.