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44-666: The collection was begun in the 1920s. Since 1977 it has been housed in a mansion, known as the Hildebrandhaus , which was originally designed by the German sulptor Adolf von Hildebrand (1847–1921) for his large artistic family. The Monacensia is one of the special libraries administered by the Munich City Library and its collections are accessible via the library website. The Monacensia in Hildebrandhaus

88-727: A cabaret in Munich called Die Pfeffermühle , for which Erika wrote most of the material, much of which was anti-Fascist . The cabaret lasted two months before the Nazis forced it to close and Mann left Germany. She was the last member of the Mann family to leave Germany after the Nazi regime was elected. She saved many of Thomas Mann's papers from their Munich home when she escaped to Zürich . In 1936, Die Pfeffermühle opened again in Zürich and became

132-550: A marriage of convenience in 1935. Mann and Auden never lived together, but remained on good terms throughout their lives and were still married when Mann died; she left him a small bequest in her will. In 1936, Auden introduced Therese Giehse, Mann's lover, to the writer John Hampson and they too married so that Giehse could leave Germany. In 1937, Mann moved to New York, where Die Pfeffermühle (as The Peppermill ) opened its doors again. There Erika Mann lived with Therese Giehse, her brother Klaus and Annemarie Schwarzenbach, amid

176-439: A Munich publishing house. The Monacensia is a popular venue for public events. These include author readings, panel discussions, and scholarly lectures about research based on the library and archival holdings. Adolf von Hildebrand Adolf von Hildebrand (6 October 1847 – 18 January 1921) was a German sculptor. Hildebrand was born at Marburg , the son of Marburg economics professor Bruno Hildebrand . He studied at

220-581: A highly diverse and valuable collection. For individual authors the archival holdings may include manuscripts, correspondence, biographical documents, photos, audio-visual documentation and personal belongings. Details of specific correspondence and manuscripts can be found at the online catalog of the Munich City Library and through Germany's national database Kalliope Union Catalogue , a union catalog for collections of personal papers, manuscripts, and publishers' archives. With funding provided by

264-578: A large group of artists in exile that included Kurt Weill , Ernst Toller and Sonia Sekula . In 1938, Mann and Klaus reported on the Spanish Civil War , and her book School for Barbarians , a critique of Nazi Germany's educational system, was published. The following year, they published Escape to Life , a book about famous German exiles. During World War II , Mann worked as a journalist in London, making radio broadcasts, in German, for

308-409: A letter to his brother Heinrich Mann his disappointment about the birth of his first child: It is a girl; a disappointment for me, as I want to admit between us, because I had greatly desired a son and will not stop doing so. [...] I feel a son is much more full of poetry [ poesievoller ], more than a sequel and restart for myself under new circumstances. Nevertheless, he later candidly confessed in

352-435: A rallying point for German exiles. In 1935, it became apparent that the Nazis were intending to strip Mann of her German citizenship; her uncle, Heinrich Mann , was the first person to be stripped of German citizenship when the Nazis took office. She asked Christopher Isherwood if he would marry her so she could become a British citizen. He declined but suggested she approach the gay poet W. H. Auden , who readily agreed to

396-737: A significant amount of time in Munich after 1889, executing a monumental fountain there, the Wittelsbacher Brunnen . He is known for five monumental urban fountains and for the Bismarck monument in Bremen, unveiled in 1910. Hildebrand worked in a Neo-classical tradition, and set out his artistic theories in his book Das Problem der Form in der Bildenden Kunst ("The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture"), published in 1893. He

440-727: A villa on 1 Poschingerstraße in Bogenhausen , which in the family would come to be known as "Poschi." From 1912 to 1914, Erika Mann attended a private school with her brother, joining for a year the Bogenhausener Volksschule, and from 1915 to 1920 she attended the Höhere Mädchenschule am St. Annaplatz. In May 1921, she transferred to the Munich-based Luisengymnasium . Together with her brother Klaus, she befriended children in

484-523: A war correspondent during World War II. In 1927, Erika and Klaus undertook a trip around the world, which they documented in their book Rundherum; Das Abenteuer einer Weltreise . The following year, she became active in journalism and politics. She was involved as an actor in the 1931 film about lesbianism , Mädchen in Uniform , directed by Leontine Sagan , but left the production before its completion. In 1932 she published Stoffel fliegt übers Meer ,

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528-572: Is located in the Munich borough of Bogenhausen along the river Isar , not far from the Angel of Peace monument. The mansion, which was built in 1898 by Gabriel von Seidl , based on Hildebrand's plans, is an example of architecture in the culturally productive period in Bavaria known as the Prinzregentenzeit , It became a gathering point for cultural elite of Munich in the early years of

572-479: Is not due largely to the life long precept and practice of this admirable representative of the craft. Erika Mann Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (9 November 1905 – 27 August 1969) was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann . Erika lived a bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and became a critic of National Socialism . After Hitler came to power in 1933, she moved to Switzerland, and married

616-431: Is on Munich as a literar and cultural metropolis. The holdings range from works printed in Munich from the 16th century until today. Some of the holdings are immediately available to the public on open shelving and works published after 1960 can be borrowed. The publicly accessible rooms of the library on the second floor are assigned different themes: The ground floor and the mezzanine of the Hildebrandhaus are open to

660-809: The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg , with Kaspar von Zumbusch at the Munich Academy and with Rudolf Siemering in Berlin . From 1873 he lived in Florence in the St Francesco Monastery, a secularized sixteenth-century monastery. A friend of Hans von Marées , he designed the architectural setting for the painter's murals in the library of the German Marine Zoological Institute at Naples (1873). He spent

704-775: The BBC throughout the Blitz and the Battle of Britain . After D-Day , she became a war correspondent attached to the Allied forces advancing across Europe. She reported from recent battlefields in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. She entered Germany in June 1945 and was among the first Allied personnel to enter Aachen . As soon as it was possible, she went to Munich to register a claim for

748-586: The German Research Foundation (DFG) the Monacensia was able to acquire the diaries of Klaus Mann , the complete archival collection of Monika Mann , as well as the entire correspondence, manuscripts and biographical documents of Erika and Klaus Mann, in order to make these publicly available in digital form. The research library encompasses around 150,000 books and other media dealing with various aspects of Munich. The primary focus

792-687: The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism . The results of research projects are published in Edition Monacensia . Beginning in 2022 the Monacensia offers local writers the opportunity to be a writer in residence . Dana von Suffrin is the first author participating in the programme, which is sponsored by C.H. Beck ,

836-459: The Nuremberg trial each day from the opening session, on 20 November 1945, until the court adjourned a month later for Christmas. She was present on 26 November when the first film evidence from an extermination camp was shown in the court room. She interviewed the defense lawyers and ridiculed their arguments in her reports and made clear that she thought the court was indulging the behaviour of

880-462: The Nuremberg trials before moving to America to support her exiled parents. Her criticisms of American foreign policy led to her being considered for deportation. After her parents moved to Switzerland in 1952, she also settled there. She wrote a biography of her father and died in Zürich in 1969. Erika Mann was born in Munich , the first-born daughter of German writer and later Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia (née Pringsheim),

924-479: The 20th century. In the years between Hildebrand's death in 1921 and 1977 the mansion changed hands numerous times and served a number of very different purposes. In 1921 Hans Ludwig Held , the newly appointed first library director in Munich, issued a requisition for all city agencies to extract from their respective collections all books dealing with Munich and its cultural affairs. As a result, 5000 volumes were submitted by various administrative departments, such as

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968-452: The Monacensia were housed temporarily at an external location. The collection comprises documentation and literary estates from approx. 300 writers who had or have a close connection with the city of Munich. Among others, the most renown writers include Oskar Maria Graf , Annette Kolb , Liesl Karlstadt , Frank Wedekind , Fanny Gräfin zu Reventlow , Gustav Meyrink , Ludwig Thoma , Ludwig Ganghofer and Jörg Hube . Further focal points of

1012-548: The anti-communist red scare and the numerous accusations from the House Committee on Un-American Activities , the Mann family left the US and she moved back to Switzerland with her parents. She had begun to help her father with his writing and had become one of his closest confidantes. After the deaths of her father and her brother Klaus, Erika Mann became responsible for their works. Mann died in Zürich on 27 August 1969 from

1056-471: The book Mephisto , whose main character was loosely based on Gründgens, posed as a man who sold his soul to the devil, (the Nazis). The book, which drew a lawsuit from Gründgens' nephew in the 1960s, was made into a film of the same name in 1981, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer . Erika Mann would later have relationships with Therese Giehse , Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Betty Knox , with whom she served as

1100-499: The collection are the life and works of writers in exile ; the Schwaginger Bohème in the years around 1900; works by contemporary writers ; and all forms of folk culture in Munich. In the 1920s Hans Ludwig Held also laid the groundwork for collecting handwritten drafts and other original manuscripts from the leading writers of Munich and the region of Upper Bavaria . In the past hundert years this has grown into

1144-438: The daughter of an intellectual German family of Jewish heritage. Due to her being the granddaughter of Júlia da Silva Bruhns , she was also of Portuguese-Indigenous Brazilian partial descent. She was named after Katia Mann's brother Erik, who died early, Thomas Mann's sister Julia  [ de ] and her great-grandmother Hedwig Dohm . She was baptized Protestant , just as her mother had been. Thomas Mann expressed in

1188-513: The defendants, in particular Hermann Göring . When the court adjourned for Christmas, Mann went to Zürich to spend time with her brother, Betty Knox and Therese Giehse. Mann's health was poor and on 1 January 1946, she collapsed and was hospitalised. Eventually, she was diagnosed with pleurisy . After a spell recovering at a spa in Arosa , Mann returned to Nuremberg in March 1946 to continue covering

1232-420: The direction the German sculpture was moving in, described Hildebrand as: a master of the old school and Florentine tradition, whose example has been a constant gospel of good taste and sanity. Even today, when the whole world has gone after false gods, his influence continues to be felt and I wonder if the fact that in the midst of this revolution German sculpture, however fantastic, remains essentially sculpture,

1276-484: The family belonged to the influential urban upper class and their father came from a commercial family from Lübeck and already had published the successful novel Buddenbrooks in 1901. The Mann home was a gathering-place for intellectuals and artists and Erika was hired for her first theater engagement before finishing her Abitur at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin . In 1914, the Mann family obtained

1320-547: The first of seven children's books. In 1932, Erika Mann was denounced by the Brownshirts after she read a pacifist poem to an anti-war meeting. She was fired from an acting role after the theatre concerned was threatened with a boycott by the Nazis. Mann successfully sued both the theatre and also a Nazi-run newspaper. Also in 1932 Mann had a role, alongside Therese Giehse, in the film Peter Voss, Thief of Millions . In January 1933, Erika, Klaus and Therese Giehse founded

1364-460: The housing agency and the city museum, and housed in a separate room in the centrally located city hall. Despite considerable bombing during the second world war , nearly all the library and archival holdings survived without notable damage. As the collection grew it was relocated several times, before moving into its current location in 1977. Between 2013 and 2016 the Hildebrandhaus was closed for general renovations and modernisation. The holdings of

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1408-711: The lenient treatment of cultural figures, such as the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler , who had stayed in Germany throughout the Nazi period. Her views on Russia and on the Berlin Airlift led to her being branded a Communist in America. Both Klaus and Erika came under an FBI investigation into their political views and rumored homosexuality . In 1949, becoming increasingly depressed and disillusioned over postwar Germany's occupation, Klaus Mann died by suicide. This event devastated and enraged Erika Mann. In 1952, due to

1452-675: The neighborhood, including Bruno Walter 's daughters, Gretel and Lotte Walter, as well as Ricki Hallgarten , the son of a Jewish intellectual family. Erika Mann founded an ambitious theater troupe, the Laienbund Deutscher Mimiker. While still a student at the Munich Luisengymnasium, Max Reinhardt engaged her to appear on the stage of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin for the first time. The partially mischievous pranks that she undertook in

1496-406: The notes of his diary, that he "preferred, of the six, the two oldest [Erika and Klaus ] and little Elisabeth with a strange decisiveness". In Erika he had a particular trust, which later showed itself in that she exercised a great influence on the important decisions of her father. Her particular role was also known by her siblings, as her brother Golo Mann remembered: "Little Erika must salt

1540-507: The poet W. H. Auden , purely to obtain a British passport and so avoid becoming stateless when the Germans cancelled her citizenship. She continued to attack Nazism, most notably with her 1938 book School for Barbarians , a critique of the Nazi education system. During World War II , Mann worked for the BBC and became a war correspondent attached to the Allied forces after D-Day . She attended

1584-476: The première of her brother Klaus's play Anja und Esther . The play, about a group of four friends who were in love with each other, opened in October 1925 to considerable publicity. In 1924 the actor Gustaf Gründgens had offered to direct the production and play one of the lead male roles, alongside Klaus, with Erika and Pamela Wedekind as the female leads. During the year they worked on the play together, Klaus

1628-633: The public during the working hours of the Monacensia. On the ground floor the Forum Atelier can be used as a venue for public events. It is adjacent to permanent exhibition rooms devoted to the documentation of "Literary Munich in the Thomas Mann Years" and the "History of the Hildebrandhaus". Other publicly accessible rooms show temporary exhibitions which showcase the Monacensia's collections. In 2019 an exhibition titled " Erika Mann . Kabarettistin – Kriegsreporterin – Politische Rednerin"

1672-433: The return of the Mann family home. When she arrived in Berlin on 3 July 1945, Mann was shocked at the level of destruction, describing the city as "a sea of devastation, shoreless and infinite". She was equally angry at the complete lack of guilt displayed by some of the German civilians and officials that she met. During this period, as well as wearing an American uniform, Mann adopted an Anglo-American accent. Mann attended

1716-1157: The so-called "Herzogpark-Bande" (" Herzogpark gang") with Klaus and her friends prompted her parents to send both her and Klaus to a progressive residential school, the Bergschule Hochwaldhausen , located in Vogelsberg in Oberhessen . This period in Erika Mann's schooling lasted from April to July 1922; subsequently she returned to the Luisengymnasium. In 1924 she passed the Abitur , albeit with poor marks, and began her theatrical studies in Berlin that were again interrupted, because of her numerous engagements in Hamburg , Munich, Berlin and elsewhere. In 1924, Erika Mann began theater studies in Berlin and acted there and in Bremen . In 1925, she played in

1760-515: The soup". This reference to the twelve-year-old Erika from the year 1917 was an often-used phrase in the Mann family. After Erika's birth came that of her brother Klaus, with whom she was personally close her entire life. They went about "like twins" and Klaus described their closeness as follows: "our solidarity was absolute and without reservation". Eventually there were four more children in total, including Golo, Monika , Elisabeth and Michael . The children grew up in Munich. On their mother's side

1804-416: The war crimes trial. In May 1946, Mann left Germany for California to help look after her father who was being treated for lung cancer. From America, Mann continued to comment on and write about, the situation in Germany. She considered it a scandal that Göring had managed to commit suicide and was furious at the slow pace of the denazification process. In particular, Mann objected to what she considered

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1848-527: Was engaged to Wedekind and Erika became engaged to Gründgens. Erika and Pamela were also in a relationship together, as were, for a time, Klaus and Gustaf. For their honeymoon, in July 1926, Erika and Gründgens stayed in a hotel that Erika and Wedekind had used as a couple shortly before, with the latter checking in dressed as a man. Erika's marriage to Gründgens was short-lived and they were soon living apart before divorcing in 1929. In 1936, her brother Klaus wrote

1892-539: Was ennobled by the King of Bavaria in 1904. He died in Munich in 1921. In 1877 he married Irene Schäuffelen. They were parents of the painter Eva, Elizabeth, sculptor Irene Georgii-Hildebrand , Sylvie, Bertele, and Catholic theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand . His great-grandson is environmental leader Martin von Hildebrand . In 1917, the American sculptor, conservative critic and author Lorado Taft , while bemoaning

1936-482: Was the first exhibition to feature Erika Mann as a person in her own right, and not, as usual, as the daughter of Thomas Mann. In addition to its permanent exhibition, special thematic exhibitions and publicly accessible collections, the Monacensia also offers a literary programme with the city's Folk high school , and special tours in collaboration with the city's Centre for Museum's Pedagogy, in particular for school classes. The Monacensia has cooperative agreements with

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