http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4d5nf4jj No online items Finding Aid for Heinrich Mann papers 0208 Finding aid prepared by Michaela Ullmann Data transfer: Nicholas Muellerleile USC Libraries Special Collections Doheny Memorial Library 206 3550 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189 213-740-5900 [email protected] 2010 Finding Aid for Heinrich Mann 0208 1 papers 0208 Title: Heinrich Mann papers Collection number: 0208 Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections Language of Material: English Physical Description: 12.0 Linear feet17 boxes Date (inclusive): 1933-1950 Abstract: The papers include personal and business correspondence, manuscripts and published articles, and personal documents and photographs, and pencil drawings dating from Heinrich Mann's years in France, 1933-1940 and Los Angeles, 1940-1950. creator: Mann, Heinrich, 1871-1950 Scope and Content Collection contains personal and business correspondence, manuscripts and published articles, short stories and reviews, personal documents and photographs, and pencil drawings dating from Heinrich Mann's years in France, 1933-1940 and Los Angeles, 1940-1950. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Heinrich Mann papers, Collection no. 0208, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California. Biographical/Historical Heinrich Mann (1871-1950), one of the foremost German writers of the twentieth century, lived almost penniless and seemingly forgotten in Los Angeles for nearly a decade before his death in 1950. Heinrich Mann was the elder brother of Nobel Prize winning novelist Thomas Mann. Despite his name and literary stature, Heinrich Mann remained virtually unknown in this country. By contrast, in pre-Hitler Germany, Heinrich had been both respected by fellow writers and popular with readers, perhaps even more so than his brother. Heinrich Mann began actively pursuing a career in writing in the 1890s after failing as a publisher's apprentice. He first began as a critic and editor, then turned his talents to short stories and novels. The novel Im Schlaraffenland (In the Land of Cockaigne), published in 1901, proved his literary skill. Although he had achieved a degree of literary success in the period before World War I, his works were not widely read. Not until Der Untertan (The Patrioteer) appeared in 1918 did he experience popular success. In the United States, Mann never gained wide recognition as a writer; and he is still best known for the 1930 film "The Blue Angel," which was adapted from his novel Professor Unrat (Small Town Tyrant). As the Nazis assumed power in February 1933, Mann was one of the first intellectuals to flee Germany. His close ties to France made his exile in Southern France relatively easy and allowed him to continue writing for an appreciative audience. Mann remained in France until the country fell to German occupation, whereupon he and his wife, Nelly, fled Europe. For Mann, then nearly seventy years old, the escape across the Pyrenees on foot was extremely arduous. Like most German exiles during World War II, Mann faced great financial difficulties in the United States. Away from European soil, he lost much of his sympathetic French audience, not to mention his larger readership in Germany. Luckily, his first year in Los Angeles was free of hardship because of a one-year contract with Warner Brothers Pictures previously arranged for Mann by fellow exiles. However, after the completion of this contract, and until his death in 1950, Mann was without a regular salary and was dependent on assistance from his family and friends. Heinrich Mann lived in several locations during his decade in Southern California. He and his wife lived first in Beverly Hills at 264 S. Doheny Drive and between 1942 and 1948 at 301 S. Swall Drive. It is in this home that his wife, Nelly, committed suicide in 1944. For his final two years, Mann lived in Santa Monica at 2145 Montana Avenue. Mann died in March 1950 shortly before his scheduled return to Europe. He was buried in Santa Monica at Woodlawn Cemetery. However, in 1961 his remains were removed and relocated to former East Berlin. In spite of the difficulties which he faced, Mann wrote some of his greatest works during his years in exile, including Die Jugend des Koenigs Henri Quatre (1935; Young Henry of Navarre), Der Atem (1949; The Breath) and his autobiographical Ein Zeitalter wird besichtigt (1945; An Age is Examined). Heinrich Mann's years in Southern California: 1940-1950. Conditions Governing Use All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Exile Studies Librarian at [email protected]. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Conditions Governing Access Finding Aid for Heinrich Mann 0208 2 papers 0208 COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access. Subjects and Indexing Terms Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958 -- Correspondence Mann, Heinrich, 1871-1950 -- Archives Mann, Heinrich, 1871-1950 -- Correspondence Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Correspondence Anti-communist movements--United States--History--20th century--Archival resources Correspondence Drawings Exiles--Germany--History--20th century--Archival resources Exiles--United States--History--20th century--Archival resources Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945--Archival resources Publications Speeches, addresses, etc. German--Archival resources Correspondence General Correspondence Box 1, Folder 1 Abusch, Alexander Box 1, Folder 2 Akelian, Ruth Box 1, Folder 3 Anders, Guenter Box 1, Folder 4 Apletin, M. Box 1, Folder 5 Appling, Nadine Box 1, Folder 6 Aragon, Louis Box 1, Folder 7 Aschberg, Olof Box 1, Folder 8 Asrican, Phill Box 1, Folder 9 Barnowsky, Victor Box 1, Folder 10 Bartsch, Wolfgang Box 1, Folder 11 Basler, Otto Box 1, Folder 12 Baumgardt, David Box 1, Folder 13 Becher, Johannes (see also Congres International des ecrivains) Box 1, Folder 14 Beidler Box 1, Folder 15 Bendfeldt, Franz Box 1, Folder 16 Berendsohn, Walter Box 1, Folder 17 Berenstein, Ann Box 1, Folder 18 Berliner, Jennie Box 1, Folder 19 Bernhard, Georg I/II Box 1, Folder 20 Bernhard, Georg (Pariser Tageszeitung) II/II Box 1, Folder 21 Bertaux, Felix Box 1, Folder 22 Bettauer, Helene Box 1, Folder 13 Biel, Kadidja (see Wedekind-Biel) Box 1, Folder 14 Bisch, J. Box 1, Folder 25 Bloch, Ernst Box 1, Folder 26 Bloch, J.-R. Box 1, Folder 27 Blunck, Hans Friedrich Box 1, Folder 28 Bodenhagen Box 1, Folder 29 Boenheim, Felix Box 2, Folder 1 Brantl, Maximilian Box 2, Folder 2 Braun, Alfred Box 2, Folder 3 Braun, Edith? Box 2, Folder 4 Braun, Max Finding Aid for Heinrich Mann 0208 3 papers 0208 Correspondence General Correspondence Box 2, Folder 5 Brecht, Bertolt Box 2, Folder 6 Brecht, Helene Box 2, Folder 7 Bredel, Willi Box 2, Folder 8 Buchwald, Hans Box 2, Folder 9 Budzislawski, Erna Box 2, Folder 10 Budzislawski, Hanna Box 2, Folder 11 Budzislawski, Hermann I/II Box 2, Folder 12 Budzislawski, Hermann II/II Box 2, Folder 13 Buergin, Hans Box 2, Folder 14 Buron Box 2, Folder 15a Cahn, Alfredo Box 2, Folder 15b Caden, G. Box 2, Folder 16 Carius, Rudolf Box 2, Folder 17 Cohen, Gustave Box 2, Folder 18 David, Andre Box 2, Folder 19 Delmas, Andre Box 2, Folder 20 Deutsch, Ernest Box 2, Folder 21 Dieterle, William & Charlotte Box 2, Folder 22 Dietrich, Kurt Box 2, Folder 23 Dimitroff Box 2, Folder 24 Doeblin, Alfred Box 2, Folder 25 Elchinger, Richard Box 2, Folder 26 Ertl-Frank, Fanny Box 2, Folder 27 Fadejew, A. Box 2, Folder 28 Federn, Walther Box 2, Folder 29 Feuchtwanger, Lion Box 2, Folder 30 Feuchtwanger, Marta Box 2, Folder 31 Fimmens, Edo (about) Box 2, Folder 32 Fleischmann, R. Box 2, Folder 33 Fles, Barthold I/II Box 2, Folder 34 Fles, Barthold I/II Box 2, Folder 35 Franck, Wolf Box 2, Folder 36 Frank, Bruno Box 2, Folder 37 Frank, Liesl Box 2, Folder 38 Frank, Marco Box 2, Folder 39 Freud, Sigmund Box 2, Folder 42 Friedenthal, Joachim Box 2, Folder 40 Freundlich, Elisabeth Box 2, Folder 41 Frey, Alexander Moritz Box 2, Folder 43 Fuerth-Feistmann, Rudolf (Paul Merkur ms.) Box 2, Folder 44 Manfred Box 2, Folder 45 Gerstman, Felix Box 2, Folder 46 Gerzymisch, Erwin Box 2, Folder 47 Gillet, Louis Box 2, Folder 48 Glaser, Helene Box 2, Folder 49 Goll, Yvan Box 2, Folder 50 Gorney, Jay Box 2, Folder 51 Gottlieb, Ernest Box 2, Folder 52 Graf, Oskar Maria Box 2, Folder 53 Granach, Alexander Box 3, Folder 1 Gropper, William Box 3, Folder 2 Grosshut, F.S. Box 3, Folder 3 Grzedzinski, January Box 3, Folder 4 Guggenheim, Felix Box 3, Folder 5 Gumbel, E Box 3, Folder 6 Haemmerling, Konrad Box 3, Folder 7 Hahn, Arnold Box 3, Folder 8 Hamburger, Martin Finding Aid for Heinrich Mann 0208 4 papers 0208 Correspondence General Correspondence Box 3, Folder 9 Hammer, Franz Box 3, Folder 10 Hardekopf, Ferdinand Box 3, Folder 11 Hardt, Gertrude Box 3, Folder 12 Harvey, Gertrude Box 3, Folder 13 Harvey, Martin Box 3, Folder 14 Hauptmann, Elisabeth Box 3, Folder 15 Hayes, Helen Box 3, Folder 16 Hedley, Herbert Box 3, Folder 17 Hegemann, Werner see Wells, H.G. Box 3, Folder 18 Heine, Th. Th. Box 3, Folder 19 Hermann, Max Box 3, Folder 20 Herzfelde, Wieland Box 3, Folder 21 Herzfelder? Box 3, Folder 22 Herzog, Wilhelm Box 3, Folder 23 Hiller, Kurt Box 3, Folder 24 Hirschfeld, ? Box 3, Folder 25 Hoechster Box 3, Folder 26 Holzer, Arnim Box 3, Folder 27 Horch, Franz