Archives, Libraries & Community Spaces
The five houses of the network "Thomas Mann International" are not the only institutions devoted
to collecting, researching and promoting the estate of Thomas Mann and his family. Numerous
archives, libraries and community spaces both in Europe and the USA are dedicated to the literary legacy of the Mann family.
You will find the most important institutions along with links to their collection catalogs here.
The archive of the Akademie der Künste is considered the most important interdisciplinary archive on modern art and culture in the German-speaking world. The Academy, founded in 1696, reconstituted ...
read more
read more
The collection of Prof. Klaus W. Jonas and his wife Prof. Ilsedore B. Jonas documents German literature of the first half of the twentieth century with an emphasis on modern classics. The collection ...
read more
read more
Bad Tölz is home to the only authentically preserved Thomas Mann house in the German-speaking world. Ever since taking a vacation there in 1908, the writer, who was living with his family in Munich ...
read more
read more
In 1958, Lion Feuchtwanger’s widow Marta donated the Villa Aurora residence along with the valuable library and Feuchtwanger archives to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. In 1995, ...
read more
read more
The German Literature Archive Marbach (DLA) is one of the most important literary institutions worldwide. In its collections, it unites and preserves a wealth of precious sources of literary and ...
read more
read more
In 1953, the "Monument of Czech Literature" was founded in the building of the Strahov Monastery with the "Museum of Czech Literature." In 1964, the "Museum of Czech Literature" took over the ...
read more
read more
The foundation of the Swiss Literary Archives (SLA) was founded by Friedrich Dürrenmatt: in 1987, he had stipulated that the donation of his estate was contingent on creating a national literary ...
read more
read more
Between 1937 and 1955, Caroline Newton laid the foundation of her collection and donated it to the library, which was later supplemented by purchases that she financed. Newton had met Mann in 1929, ...
read more
read more
The second largest collection of autographs on Thomas Mann, after the Thomas Mann Archive at the ETH Zurich, was created through a donation of 38 manuscripts from Thomas Mann in 1937 and donations ...
read more
read more
The Thomas Mann Collection of the Düsseldorf University and State Library is one of the most comprehensive memorial institutions on Thomas Mann and his family. In the 1920s, the Düsseldorf-based ...
read more
read more