14 Facts About Heinrich Mann

Heinrich Mann was the elder brother of writer Thomas Mann.

Heinrich Mann was the elder brother of the writer Thomas Mann with whom he had a lifelong rivalry.

The Mann family was an affluent family of grain merchants of the Hanseatic city of Lubeck.

Heinrich Mann wanted his paramour, the actress Trude Hesterberg, to play the main female part as the "actress" Lola Lola, but Marlene Dietrich was given the part, her first sound role.

Together with Albert Einstein and other celebrities during 1932, Heinrich Mann was a signatory to the "Urgent Call for Unity", asking the voters to reject the Nazis.

Einstein and Heinrich Mann had previously co-authored a letter during 1931 condemning the murder of Croatian scholar Milan Sufflay.

Heinrich Mann became persona non grata in Nazi Germany and left even before the Reichstag fire of 1933.

Heinrich Mann went to France where he lived in Paris and Nice.

Heinrich Mann then lived poor and sickly in Los Angeles, supported by his brother Thomas, who lived in Pacific Palisades.

Heinrich Mann styled himself as a socialist revolutionary, Thomas, perhaps precisely because of this, at least in his younger years, gave himself a conservative image.

In 1911, Heinrich Mann had accompanied his brother and sister-in-law to Venice, where they stayed at the Grand Hotel des Bains on the Venice Lido.

Heinrich Mann died on March 11,1950, sixteen days before his 79th birthday, in Santa Monica, California, lonely and without much money, just months before he was to relocate to East Berlin to become president of the East German Academy of Arts.

Heinrich Mann's ashes were later taken to East Germany and were interred at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery in a grave of honor.

Heinrich Mann was portrayed by Alec Guinness in the television adaptation of Christopher Hampton's play Tales from Hollywood.