The sea was, for Thomas Mann, a place of longing and a promising pull into the depths throughout his life. A place of liberation from the bourgeois, political, and erotic constraints of his existence. He grows up by the Baltic Sea, but as soon as he can, he heads south to the Mediterranean, falls in love with young men, yet ultimately conforms to the conventions of his time and marries Katia. Weidermann tells the life of Thomas Mann in a completely new way. It is the biography of a great writer and his family, but above all, it is a story about the dark, the shining, the alluring, and the liberating – about Thomas Mann and the sea.

Unabridged reading with Hanns Zischler
1 mp3-CD | approx. 6 hours 26 minutes.