To prevent his daughter from being repatriated by the Nazis, in 1935 he married his daughter Erika to W. H. Auden despite the fact they never met beforehand.
To prevent his daughter from being repatriated by the Nazis, in 1935 he married his daughter Erika to W. H. Auden despite the fact they never met beforehand. Married to Katia Pingsheim, he kept his homosexual attraction to painter Paul Ehrenberg a secret from the Nazis, who likely considered his 1924 work The Magic Mountain one of the best German novels ever written. For ten points, name this Nobel laureate and writer of the 1901 semiautobiographical work Buddenbrooks.
To prevent his daughter from being repatriated by the Nazis, in 1935 he married his daughter Erika to W. H. Auden despite the fact they never met beforehand.
Thomas {Mann}