Thomas manns beziehung zu seinen amerikanischen verlegern, Förderern und Agenturen

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8-1-2016

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© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2016. Already early in his life, Thomas Mann had the ambition to not only become a famous fiction writer but also a renowned essayist and orator, however, he did not accomplish this second goal before the end of ww i. With Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen (1919) he became known as a political essayist and developed networks throughout Europe. His first networks in the United States were established through his contact with the American literary journal The Dial and his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. By 1933 he had already become known as the most recent German Nobel Laureate, and when he visited the us before he settled there in 1938, he already had very strong supporters such as Knopf and the influential Dorothy Thompson, as well as Agnes Meyer and Caroline Newton. His reputation as "the most famous living man of letters" allowed him to continue his luxurious lifestyle and, in addition to his publication revenues, support himself and his family with yearly lecture tours. The networks he had established also made it possible for him to address his former compatriots via bbc radio speeches. When he decided to return to Europe in 1952, the networks he had established in Switzerland prior to 1938 allowed him to resettle in Zurich.

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Networks of Refugees from Nazi Germany: Continuities, Reorientations, and Collaborations in Exile

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