Thomas Mann, born in 1875 in Lübeck, lived in Munich since 1894. In 1933, he left Germany and initially lived in Switzerland by Lake Zurich, then in the United States, where he accepted a professorship at Princeton University in 1938. Later, he resided in California, and then returned to Switzerland. He died in Zurich on August 12, 1955. Thomas Mann is considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. With him, the modern German novel connected to world literature. Mann's extensive and multifaceted work has received an unparalleled positive response worldwide. For his first major novel "Buddenbrooks," he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.