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Klaus Mann

1906 - 1949

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Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann (18 November 1906 – 21 May 1949) was a German writer and dissident. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann (with whom he maintained a lifelong close relationship) and Golo Mann. Klaus moved to the United States to escape Nazism, and after training in counterintelligence as one of the Ritchie Boys, he served in Europe during World War II, becoming one of the first outsiders to witness the horrors of the concentration camps. His books Escape to Life (co-written with his sister Erika Mann), and The Turning Point have attained a historical importance as frequently cited primary documents of the experience of exile undergone by members of the German intelligentsia and arts community who fled the Third Reich. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Klaus Mann is the 648th most popular writer (down from 551st in 2019), the 633rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 517th in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Writer.

Klaus Mann was a German author and son of Thomas Mann. He was most famous for his novel "Mephisto", which was about the rise of Nazism.

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Among writers, Klaus Mann ranks 648 out of 7,302. Before him are Giambattista Basile, Tibor Sekelj, Anton Makarenko, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Laurence Sterne, and Nestor the Chronicler. After him are Eugenio Montale, Jon Fosse, Alexander Pope, Irène Némirovsky, Jacob L. Moreno, and Vicente Aleixandre.

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Among people born in 1906, Klaus Mann ranks 47. Before him are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Soichiro Honda, Alexey Stakhanov, Wassily Leontief, Max Delbrück, and Dino Buzzati. After him are Albert Sabin, Ettore Majorana, Empress Wanrong, John Huston, Lon Chaney Jr., and Marie José of Belgium. Among people deceased in 1949, Klaus Mann ranks 16. Before him are Friedrich Bergius, Hassan al-Banna, James Ensor, August Krogh, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and Charles Ponzi. After him are Axel Munthe, Angela Hitler, Elton Mayo, Victor Fleming, Edward Stettinius Jr., and Fyodor Tolbukhin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Klaus Mann ranks 633 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), Ernst Mayr (1904), Wolfgang Petersen (1941), Kurt Weill (1900), Walter Baade (1893), and Adolf Galland (1912). After him are Helmut Newton (1920), Hans Jonas (1903), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), Anneliese Michel (1952), Gabriele Münter (1877), and Kurt Student (1890).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Klaus Mann ranks 36. Before him are Jean Paul (1763), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Patrick Süskind (1949), Lion Feuchtwanger (1884), Bert Hellinger (1925), and Ludwig Tieck (1773). After him are Dietrich Eckart (1868), Georg Büchner (1813), Clemens Brentano (1778), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Hugo Ball (1886), and Bernhard Schlink (1944).

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