This volume discusses Thomas Mann's essayistic and poetic engagement with Germany's political configuration after the end of the Second World War and National Socialism. Can any aesthetic continuities be traced from the Weimar Republic, through exile, to the early FRG? What was the significance of Thomas Mann and his work in East and West? How did the author position himself politically, and which traditions of thought did he take up?

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Anna Kinder, German Literary Archive Marbach; Tim Lörke, FU Berlin; Sebastian Zilles, Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg, Germany.