Heinrich Mann
The Heinrich Mann spot in Nice connects French cultural history with a German writer and political thinker. Born in Lübeck in 1871, Mann became a novelist, essayist and satirist.
His writing examined wealth, status and power in Germany under Emperor Wilhelm II, with sharp attention to authoritarian social structures. Professor Unrat appeared in 1905 and was later adapted into the film The Blue Angel.
The novel follows a provincial schoolmaster’s infatuation with a cabaret singer, exposing the authority figures of its era. Mann also wrote the Kaiserreich trilogy: Die Armen, Der Untertan and Der Kopf.
After the First World War, his essays supported democracy and challenged militarism, political arrogance and public submission in Germany. Nazi rule drove Mann into exile in 1933.
He continued writing in France and the United States, producing fiction, essays and the autobiography Ein Zeitalter wird besichtigt. Mann died in Santa Monica in 1950, and his remains were later moved to Berlin.
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