Faced with Lübeck's failing economy, Mann's father wished that two of his sons, Thomas and Heinrich, would take over positions at the helm of the family business. His mother, Júlia da Silva Bruhns, was born in Brazil and was the daughter of a German planter and a woman of Portuguese-Creole descent. (Germany had only recently been unified by Otto von Bismarck inġ871.) Mann's father, Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, was a well-to-do merchant. Shared Interest in the Arts Thomas Mann was born on June 6, 1875, in Lübeck, Germany. Works in Biographical and Historical Context Praised as the peer of writers like James Joyce, Mann won the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature and achieved international acclaim during his lifetime. Mann's epic novels and short stories highlighted the struggles and psychology of intellectuals and artists, exploring philosophical issues as he investigated German national identity. Considered one of the foremost twentieth-century German novelists, Thomas Mann gained fame for ironic and philosophical works that reflected the doubts and fears of his era.
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