Film premiere in the literary house: Buddenbrooks on the 150th birthday of man!

Film premiere in the literary house: Buddenbrooks on the 150th birthday of man!

Frankfurter Straße 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Deutschland - An exciting event is just around the corner: On June 18, 2025, at 6:30 p.m., the film screening of the documentary "Buddenbrooks. Thomas Mann and Lübeck" takes place in the Villa Clementine Literature House in Wiesbaden. On the occasion of the 150th birthday of the famous writer, the event, which is organized by the Wiesbaden cultural office in cooperation with Arte and the network of literary houses, will be a special highlight for literature and history enthusiasts. wiesbaden.de reports that admission to the film screening is free and that a reading by the historian and author Tilmann Lahme will also take place at 8 p.m. Lahme will read from his biography "Thomas Mann. A life" and thus give another insight into the life of the writer.

But what makes the documentation so special? According to Wiesbaden lives The film highlights the origin and the conflicts, the focus of Mann's famous novel "buddenbrooks". Published in 1901, the work met with a lot of outrage in Lübeck, since the citizens felt caricized by the description of their city and their way of life. The famous work tells the history of the slow expiry of a respected merchant family and plays for four generations, from the heyday of business to the tragic extinction of the family with the death of the last heir, Hanno. Thomas Mann, who is known for his profound descriptions of family dynamics and social change, received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his entire work in 1929.

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Another exciting aspect of the documentation is the exploration of Lübeck in the 19th century, which served as a backdrop for the events of the novel. The city is presented as a kind of protagonist whose own fate is inseparable from the Buddenbrooks. While the house on Mengstraße serves as a symbol of tradition and decay in the novel, Lübeck is in the documentation for the large number of stories that are hidden in the walls and streets of the city.

The event in the Literaturhaus Villa Clementine promises not only to be entertaining, but also to give a deep insight into Thomas Mann's work and to clarify its importance for German literary history. If you are interested in literature and the history of one of the most important German figures of the 20th century, you should not miss this event. Further information is available on the website of the city of Wiesbaden: wiesbaden.de .