Thomas Mann in München

Religion und Narration

By (author) Yvonne Nilges

Book cover: Thomas Mann in München

Extent: 171 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Palaestra

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(October 2022)

ISBN: 9783847114697

6.34 x 9.33 inches

Price: $62.00

In stock

Die Studie verknupft zwei Forschungsdesiderate der aktuellen Thomas-Mann-Forschung: Religion und Narration, die in den Munchner Werken Thomas Manns erstmals zusammenhangend erschlossen werden.


The book examines the interplay of religion and narrative technique in Thomas Mann’s early and ‘middle’ literary works. Following Friedrich Nietzsche’s “God is dead”, religion and narration form an increasingly dynamic connection in Thomas Mann’s thinking and writing. This connection, however, has hardly been accorded any attention at all up to this time. Yvonne Nilges finally analyses this very relation, also shedding new light on Mann’s religious education at the Katharineum in Lubeck (1889-1894). The book includes archvival illustrations that have been unknown in scholarship so far.

PD Dr. Yvonne Nilges wirkte u. a. in Harvard und Oxford, lehrte als Gastprofessorin in Neuseeland und ist Privatdozentin für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Heidelberg.

  • By (author) Yvonne Nilges