Book Presentation: Thomas Mann – In the Scorched Landscape of Democracy

Conclusion and Outlook for the Thomas Mann Project

Join us in celebrating the publication marking the conclusion of the interdisciplinary Thomas Mann project.

Join us in celebrating the launch of the book “Thomas Mann – In the Scorched Landscape of Democracy” (published by TUM University Press). This publication marks the conclusion of the interdisciplinary project of the same name, organized by the TUM Center for Culture and Arts and the Thomas Mann Forum Munich to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the writer’s birth.

At the book presentation, the editors— Prof. Felix Mayer ( Director of TUM CCA) and Dr. Dirk Heißerer—along with Eckhard Zimmermann and Matthias Stuber (Thomas Mann Forum Munich) will look back on the project as a whole. At the same time, they will look ahead: Prof. Winfried Nerdinger will outline prospects for the future of remembrance culture at TUM.

This volume brings together the papers presented at the symposium “Militant Humanism: Thomas Mann’s Struggle for Democracy” and the documents from the Exhibition.

A reconstruction of a programmatic lecture by Thomas Mann on the “German Book” (1925) serves as a transition to the contributions by Frido Mann, Dirk Heißerer, Ursula Münch, Winfried Nerdinger, Hans R. Vaget, and Sebastian Hansen. The volume concludes with images and texts from Exhibition multimedia Exhibition curated by Matthias Stuber and Eckhard Zimmermann.