The Goethe-Institut Washington and the European Division of the Library of Congress are pleased to present a lecture by Frido Mann. Following in his grandfather's footsteps, Frido Mann will be giving lectures in more than a dozen cities in the United States and Canada. His visit to the Library of Congress is especially meaningful due to his grandfather’s connection with the library. Thomas Mann gave several lectures at the Library of Congress, served as consultant in Germanic literature for three years beginning in 1942, and remained a Library fellow in German literature until his death.
Born in the United States, Frido Mann sensed the democratic creed of his parents and grandparents from childhood on. They had managed to leave Europe for the U.S. just in time before the outbreak of WWII. During his extended lecture tours, Thomas Mann, Frido's grandfather, addressed his American audiences with his speech “The Coming Victory of Democracy” warning of the dangers of fascism for a liberal democracy: “The social renewal of democracy is the presupposition and the guarantee of its victory.” He will address the current crises in the American and European democracies and the need for their restoration, on the basis of a transatlantic dialogue as initiated by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Free and open to the public (capacity of 120 in the room at LOC)
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Frido Mann was born in 1940 in Monterey/California. He studied music, catholic theology, and psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist in in Münster, Leipzig and Prague. He now lives in Munich and works as a freelance writer. His recent publications are
An die Musik. Ein autobiographischer Essay (Ode to Music: An Autobiographical Essay) and - together with Christine Mann -
Es werde Licht. Die Einheit von Geist und Materie in der Quantenphysik (Let there be Light: The Union of Spirit and Matter in Quantum Physics). In August 2018, S. Fischer published
Das Weiße Haus des Exils (The White House of Exile) about the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles.
Co-sponsored by the European Division of the Library of Congress.
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