Leonie Mann

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Leonie Askenazy-Mann (right) 1958

Carla Henriette Maria Leonie "Goschi" Mann (born September 10, 1916 in Munich , † October 25, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German author and translator from the Mann family of writers .

Life

Leonie Mann was the only child of the writer Heinrich Mann (1871–1950) and came from his first marriage to the Czech actress Maria Kanová (1886–1947). The couple separated in 1927, the marriage was divorced in 1930, the daughter grew up with her mother and was surprised by the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in Prague in early 1939. Her mother was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto from 1940 to 1945 and died of the consequences of the imprisonment in 1947.

Leonie Mann married the Czech writer and dramaturge Ludvík Aškenazy (1921–1986). Her sons are Jindřich Mann-Aškenazy (* 1948, director) and Ludvik Mann-Aškenazy (* 1956, filmmaker). She lived with her husband in Prague until 1968 , then in Munich and from 1976 in Bozen .

In 1955/56 she translated two Czech children's books by Milan Pavlík and Ondřej Sekora from Czech. Leonie Mann first received public attention in 1957 when she bequeathed parts of her father's estate to the German Academy of the Arts in East Berlin .

The public's attention was drawn to Leonie Mann again in 1961 when she allowed the then GDR government to move her father's urn from a small cemetery in Santa Monica ( California , USA) to a grave of honor in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in East Berlin to relocate.

literature

  • Marianne Krüll: In the network of magicians - Another story of the Mann family . Through and supplementary new edition Fischer, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-10-042030-6
  • Michael Stübbe: The Manns. Genealogy of a German family of writers . Degener & Co 2004, ISBN 3-7686-5189-4
  • Jindřich Mann: Prague, poste restante: an unknown story of the Mann family . Autobiography. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2007 ISBN 978-3-498-04500-5

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personal data
SURNAME Man, Leonie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Husband, Carla Maria Henriette Leonie; Mann-Aškenazy, Leonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, member of the Mann family
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1986
Place of death Berlin