Buddenbrooks (1901), by Thomas Mann, portrays the decadence of a wealthy merchant family, in Lübeck, in the course of four generations; and it is a portrait of German bourgeois society through several decades of the 19th century.
It was Mann's first novel, published in 1901 when he was twenty-six years old. The publication of the 2nd edition in 1903 confirmed that Buddenbrooks was a major literary success in Germany. The book displays Mann's characteristic detailed style, and it was this novel which won Mann the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, although according to Mann's wife this achievement would not have occurred without the publication of The Magic Mountain.
Thomas Mann started writing the book in October 1897, when he was twenty-two years old. The novel was completed three years later, in July 1900, and published in October 1901. His objective was to write a novel on the conflicts between businessman and artist's worlds, presented as a family saga, continuing in the realist tradition of 19th century works such as Stendhal's Le Rouge et le noir (1830; The Red and the Black). More personally, he wanted to surpass the literary status already achieved by his eldest brother Heinrich Mann, who met relative success with the novel In einer Familie (1894, In a Family), and who was working at that time on another novel about German bourgeois society, Im Schlaraffenland (1900, In the Land of Cockaigne). It can be said that both of Thomas Mann's objectives were satisfied. The novel stands today as one of his most popular, especially in Germany, and is considered by many to be the novel that best captures the 19th century German bourgeois atmosphere.
Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
Mann was born Paul Thomas Mann in Lübeck, Germany, and was the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and a grain merchant), and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns (a Brazilian of partial German ancestry who emigrated to Germany when seven years old). His mother was Roman Catholic, but Mann was baptised into his father's Lutheran faith. Mann's father died in 1891, and his trading firm was liquidated. The family subsequently moved to Munich. Mann attended the science division of a Lübeck Gymnasium (school), then spent time at the Ludwig Maximillians University of Munich and Technical University of Munich where, in preparation for a journalism career, he studied history, economics, art history and literature.
Iris Berben (born 12 August 1950 in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German actress. She grew up in Hamburg, where her parents ran a restaurant.
After the Six-day War in 1967 she travelled to Israel, and afterwards became the partner of the Israeli singer Abi Ofarim. Since then she has been associated with the pro-Israel lobby and has campaigned against anti-semitism. She had a son, Oliver, in 1971, but never revealed the identity of the father.
In 2010, together with Bruno Ganz she was elected president of the German Film Academy.
Buddenbrooks 1959 Folge 1v2 (ganzer Film)
Casa Buddenbrook
Buddenbrooks 1959 Folge 2v2 (ganzer Film)
Die Buddenbrooks Hörspiel [Deutsch/Komplett]
BUDDENBROOKS TRAILER
38 - Buddenbrooks - Leuwerik, Benrath, Solf - 1979
les buddenbrook, le déclin d'une famille
Buddenbrooks - Trailer - Kinostart 25.12.2008
Worum geht's in DIE BUDDENBROOKS?
Melody from the movie Buddenbrooks - Which melody is it?
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Buddenbrooks Trailer "Selbstgemacht für die Schule" *Selfmade*
Buddenbrooks
Plot
In the 1840s, Lübeck is a dominating commercial town on the Baltic coast, and the Buddenbrooks are among the town's first families. Consul Jean Buddenbrook has two sons, Thomas and Christian, and one daughter, Antonia, called Tony. Even though he dearly loves them, he expects his children to sacrifice personal happiness for the sake of the company if necessary. The first to learn this is Tony, who is married off to Hamburgian businessman Bendix Grünlich. Her brothers have meanwhile learned the trade in Amsterdam and London respectively. Crushed by Tony's marriage disaster and several unlucky transactions, Jean Buddenbrook makes over the business to his eldest, Thomas. Thomas marries the dutch heiress Gerda, who is a passionate violin player. But Thomas never forgets his first love, a flower girl. After having spent time in Valparaiso, Christian returns to Lübeck, too. Thomas soon learns that his brother is much more interested in the theatre and actress Aline than in the company, which causes a rift between the brothers. Seeing that she can't heal it, their mother admonishes them to at least conceal it from the public.
Keywords: 19th-century, ancestry, based-on-novel, bourgeoisie, brother-sister-relationship, family-relationships, father-daughter-relationship, father-son-relationship, husband-wife-relationship, imperial-germany
Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook: My father says, that's how the Hagenströms do it all the time.::Hermann Hagenström: How do we do it?::Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook: With the elbows.
[repeated line]::Thomas Buddenbrook: The company demands it.
Bendix Grünlich: I'm disrupting, I'm stepping into a family circle, one is chatting, I have to ask forgiveness.
Elisabeth 'Betsy' Buddenbrook: We would be delighted if you resided in our house for the duration of your stay.::Bendix Grünlich: Frau Konsulin, thank you very much, I'm occupying several rooms at the Gasthaus Stadt Hamburg.
Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook: The man arrives, says something pleasant to everybody, leaves. And now he writes in this letter that he formed a strong attachment to me.
Johann 'Jean' Buddenbrook: You are a Buddenbrook. We are not born to live for what we might take to be happiness with our short-sighted eyes. We are links in a chain. You, too, are unthinkable without those who have come before us.
Van Kellen: Coffee, spices, rubber, paraffin, timber, indigo - Here you will have insight into an overseas world trade.::Thomas Buddenbrook: At home in Lübeck, they're still arguing about joining costums union.::Van Kellen: You'll see. The bigger the market, the better are the chances. Money wants to procreate.::Thomas Buddenbrook: The way you say that. As if the money was alive.
Gerda Arnoldsen: At least. A merchant with longing.::Thomas Buddenbrook: Don't tell on me in Lübeck.
Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook: You are my banker. He says I'm ruining him with my little purchases.::Kesselmayer: You ruin him? [laughing hard] That's funny.
Johann 'Jean' Buddenbrook: Sit down in my place. I want you to draw up an advertisment. 'Merchant Jean Buddenbrook, royal dutch consul, is honoured to announce that he will stop signing from this day on. The eldest son, Thomas, will from now on manage the Buddenbrook company.'
Buddenbrooks 1959 Folge 1v2 (ganzer Film)
Casa Buddenbrook
Buddenbrooks 1959 Folge 2v2 (ganzer Film)
Die Buddenbrooks Hörspiel [Deutsch/Komplett]
BUDDENBROOKS TRAILER
38 - Buddenbrooks - Leuwerik, Benrath, Solf - 1979
les buddenbrook, le déclin d'une famille
Buddenbrooks - Trailer - Kinostart 25.12.2008
Worum geht's in DIE BUDDENBROOKS?
Melody from the movie Buddenbrooks - Which melody is it?
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Buddenbrooks Trailer "Selbstgemacht für die Schule" *Selfmade*
Buddenbrooks
Iris Berben Buddenbrooks Szene
Los Buddenbrook / Tráiler oficial España
Fit in Literatur: Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks
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Klassiker der Weltliteratur: Thomas Mann - "Die Buddenbrooks" | BR-alpha
"Buddenbrooks" am Theater Freiburg
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