Talk:Erika Mann

W. H. Auden says she was a lesbian, but this article skirts the issue - can we clarify? Trollderella 16:10, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

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 * It seems to be general knowledge that Erika Mann was lesbian. For a written secondary source and a picture of the wedding certificate see http://londongrip.co.uk/2010/09/literature-w-h-auden-erika-mann-by-alan-lloyd/ Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 20:08, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm looking at an essay by Gotz Thieme in the 39-CD Sony release of Bruno Walter's recordings. He spends a full paragraph describing Walter's affair with Erika Mann, daughter of his long-time friend Thomas Mann. After Walter's wife died in 1945, Erika was devastated that Walter took up with his older flame, Delia Reinhardt (not related to the current German athlete!). So if EM was a lesbian, it wasn't full time. D. Altschuler, Los Angeles

She was bisexual, that's all. Most of the time, though, she did settle on the Lesbian side of the fence. But surely, by now, we know that sexual attraction for some people is an open border.Pascalulu88 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pascalulu88 (talk • contribs) 12:25, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Later life
"She died in Zurich." Of what? She died in 1969. Last date mentioned is 1952. What happened in the intervening 17 years?

Sca (talk) 19:58, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

She moved with her parents to Switzerland in 1952 (Zurich 1954). She edited her father´s letters and published own works; good Bio in german WP--84.169.241.243 (talk) 15:45, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Later life Klaus
Heja, so I edited this section into this:


 * In 1949, becoming increasingly depressed and disillusioned over postwar Germany's occupation, and being homophobically attacked and outed by the U.S. government, Klaus Mann died by suicide, a refugee in the United States. This event devastated and engaged Erika Mann.[9]

I added outed and additional context from the Citations. The other version failed to mention key context info from the citation; that the Mann's were specifically upset/hopeless about the continued tyrrany of an occupation as well as its politicisation (it turns out they were kinda right to be) and that the psychological stress of Klaus being repeatedly outed and essentially being forced to deal with a prospect of a homophobic deportation to Germany, destroying his new life.

I'll check on Klaus' page another time, personally I don't like being outed, so I just log my handle and current ip talonx89.12.78.160 (talk) 11:14, 3 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Klaus Mann died in Cannes, not in the US. —Kusma (talk) 13:09, 3 June 2022 (UTC)