But the intellectual left never forgave him his 1937 support of Gide’s book denouncing Stalin and Soviet Russia. In Rome for example it’s Magnani, Moravia, Rossellini, de Chirico, Mario Praz. On account of his father’s distinction and his own jerky bravura, he had the most fabulous address book I’ve ever encountered in a biography. His fellow squaddies nicknamed him ‘the professor’.Īfter the war Klaus roamed Europe again.
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At a surreal moment he became a GI - even the US Army was welcoming, once he’d taken the syphilis cure. He attended a Christmas party at David Selznick’s studio and was taken by George Cukor to the shooting of a scene for Gone With the Wind.’ Celebrity-surfing as usual. In Hollywood Klaus ‘had lunch successively with Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang. In private he droned on ceaselessly about death and suicide, yet the dizzy pace continued in the USA where the Manns spent most of the second world war. By this time, Klaus was living on morphine, benzedrine and anything else available, preyed on by casual pick-ups, enslaved by destructive infatuations. It was through Klaus’s friendship with Isherwood that Erika was able to marry Auden as an escape route. Klaus dashed from capital to capital, editing, writing and rousing the German emigré opposition. Well before the rest of the world turned up for the Berlin Olympics in 1936, the entire Mann family was in exile. Thomas, already marked as a vocal anti-Nazi, lost everything in his homeland. Klaus and Erika begged them not to return to Germany and they didn’t. When Hitler was elected Chancellor in 1933, the Mann parents were in Switzerland. Those on the right ignored him altogether, until the rise of Nazism led to aggressive persecution and Klaus fled permanently abroad. Klaus was a courageous, talented writer, but they couldn’t cope with his sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. In Weimar Germany, Klaus was sneered at by those on the left who might be expected to have supported him: Brecht, Tucholsky and Walter Benjamin.
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But Paris became his spiritual home, where he smoked opium with Cocteau, terrified Julien Green, and worshipped Gide (to Gide’s annoyance). He found rough trade in every city he visited 1932, for example, finds him frequenting Piccadilly Circus and the Turkish baths in Jermyn Street. Klaus explored his homosexuality in his first book, published in 1925, and in many works thereafter. Klaus never stopped travelling, and this biography is a feverish sequence of arrivals and departures.Įrika was more the performer, Klaus more the writer. By the time Klaus reached 21, he and his sister had frolicked right round the globe.
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They were also artistically precocious the frantic pair took German Expressionist cabaret to Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, New York and Moscow. The two eldest, Erika and Klaus, born in 19 respectively, were delinquent almost from the word go: shoplifting, prank phone calls, trickery on old ladies, special schools. Thomas Mann, despite strong homosexual emotions, had six children.