Heinrich Mann

Emerging from a prominent Lübeck family, the son of a senator-grain merchant and his Brazilian wife, he moved to Munich after his father's death and launched himself as a freelance writer. His early essays, notably a study of Émile Zola, and the satirical novel Der Untertan earned him respect among left-wing intellectuals during the Weimar years, and in 1930 he was appointed president of the fine… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources