Pawel Pawlikowski directs a spare drama about the Nobel-winning author and his daughter returning to Germany after World War ...

Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's return to a fractured Germany after World War II is the backdrop for this austere but ...

In the new film Fatherland, Thomas Mann is a standard-bearer for a tradition of liberal humanism that, though in many ways noble, proves completely incapable of fending off the most terrible evils.

Speaking at the Library of Congress, just before the end of World War II, Thomas Mann insisted “that there are not two Germanies, a bad and a good one, but only one whose best qualities were perverted ...

Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller play the great writer and his daughter in this spectral portrait of postwar Germany ...

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is a postwar period piece mapping a Germany whose broken halves reflect distorted mirror images: Prosperity and austerity signify twin existential crises. The convivial ...

Ultimately, “Fatherland” captures both the ideologies of Cold War Germany and timeless issues of belonging, grief and ...

Today's Thomas Mann is a victim of his own high reputation: in a word, lofty, in another, forbidding. There's never been a dip in esteem for Mann, the German author who won the Nobel Prize in ...

“The task of a writer,” Thomas Mann (1875-1955) said, “consists in being able to make something out of an idea.” He also said, “A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for ...