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Klaus Mann

Died in 1949

Klaus Mann was born in 1906 in Munich, eldest son of Thomas Mann and brother of Erika, with whom he performed in his first play in 1925. He published his first book the same year and led the life of a journalist and traveller. He left Germany in March 1933, founded the exile review Die Sammlung in Amsterdam, was stripped of his nationality and became a Czechoslovak citizen, then an American one in 1943. Enlisted in the American army, in 1945 he was a correspondent in Germany for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. He died in Cannes in 1949.

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