Carla Mann

Carla Mann (1903)

Carla Auguste Olga Maria Mann (born September 23, 1881 in Lübeck , † July 30, 1910 in Polling ) was a German actress and sister of the writers Heinrich and Thomas Mann .

Life

Carla Mann came from the Mann family and was next to Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), Thomas Mann (1875–1955), Julia Mann (1877–1927) and Viktor Mann (1890–1949) the fourth child and the youngest daughter of the Lübeck resident Kaufmann and Senators Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Julia da Silva-Bruhns . She grew up in Lübeck until her father's death in 1891; In 1893 the family moved to Munich .

She was an actress, but her success failed. In order to no longer be dependent on the family, she decided to get married. When it came to her fiancé Arthur Gibo because of an alleged affair to battle, she committed 28 years suicide by ingesting cyanide .

Her eldest brother Heinrich Mann dealt with her fate in the play Actress and the novel The Hunt for Love , as did her brother Thomas Mann in the novel Doctor Faustus , in which the life story of Sister Julia is also processed in literary terms.

She was buried in Polling, where her mother lived at the time. Her mother, her youngest brother Viktor Mann and his wife were also buried there. There has been a family memorial plaque there since 1971.

literature

• Marianne Goch: Carla Mann (1881–1910). A biographical sketch. In: Luise F. Pusch (Ed.): Sisters of famous men. 12 biographical portraits. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1985, pp. 493-538, ISBN 3-458-32496-8 .
• Willi Jasper : Carla Mann: the tragic life in the shadow of the brothers . Propylaea, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-549-07406-0 .
• Marianne Krüll : In the network of magicians. Another story of the Mann family. New edition: S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-10-042030-5 .
• Michael Stübbe: The Manns. Genealogy of a German family of writers . 2nd revised edition, self-published 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052256-7 .
• Heiner Welter: The lost grave of the man . Novel. Info, Bretten 2016, ISBN 978-3-88190-925-9 .
• Hans Wißkirchen : The Mann family . Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-50630-0 .
• Johannes Albendorf: The cruelty of cats. From the sister of the Manns. AAVAA-Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-8459-2538-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Carla Mann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Carla Mann. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
• Carla Auguste Olga Maria Mann Short biography on thomasmann.de
• Die Frauen im Schatten by Heinrich and Thomas Mann, by Marianne Krüll appeared in EMMA July / August 2000
• Julia and Carla: next to me and sister soul. Julia and Carla Mann in the work of their brothers Thomas and Heinrich ( Memento from January 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  • The tragically short life of Carla Mann ( Memento from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Bavarian Broadcasting Dossier, December 17, 2007
• Willi Jasper: Carla and her brothers Die Zeit , September 7, 2010