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Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (November 9, 1905 – August 27, 1969) was a German actress and writer, the eldest daughter of novelist Thomas Mann and Katia Mann. ==Life== Erika Mann was born in Munich and was the firstborn daughter of the writer and later Nobel-prize winner Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia (née Pringsheim), the daughter of an intellectual German family of Jewish heritage. She was named after Katia Mann's brother Erik, who died early, Thomas Mann's sister Julia Mann, and her grandmother Hedwig Dohm. She was baptized as a Protestant, just as her mother had been. Thomas Mann expressed in a letter to his brother Heinrich Mann his disappointment about the birth of his first child: :"It is a girl; a disappointment for me, as I want to admit between us, because I had greatly desired a son and will not stop to hold such a desire. () I feel a son is much more full of poetry (), more than a sequel and restart for myself under new circumstances."〔Thomas Mann/Heinrich Mann: ''Briefwechsel 1900–1949'', S. 109〕 Nevertheless, he later candidly confessed in the notes of his diary, that he "preferred, of the six, the two oldest (and Klaus ) and little Elisabeth with a strange decisiveness".〔Thomas Mann: ''Tagebücher 1918–1921'', Eintrag vom 10. März 1920〕 In Erika he had a particular trust, which later showed itself in that she exercised a great influence on the important decisions of her father.〔Marcel Reich-Ranicki: Thomas Mann und die Seinen, S. 184〕 Her particular role was also known by her siblings, as her brother Golo Mann remembered: "Little Erika must salt the soup".〔Golo Mann: ''Meine Schwester Erika''. In Erika Mann, Briefe II, S. 241〕 This reference to the twelve-year-old Erika from the year 1917 was an often-used phrase in the Mann family. After Erika's birth came that of her brother Klaus, with whom she was personally close her entire life – they went about "like twins", and Klaus Mann described their closeness as follows: "our solidarity was absolute and without reservation".〔Klaus Mann: ''Der Wendepunkt'', S. 102〕 Eventually there were four more children in total, including Golo, Monika, Elisabeth, and Michael. The children grew up in Munich. On the mother's side the family belonged to the influential urban upper class, and the father came from a commercial family from Lübeck and already had published the successful novel ''Buddenbrooks'' in 1901. The Mann home was a gathering-place for intellectuals and artists, and Erika was hired for her first theater engagement before finishing her ''Abitur'' at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Erika Mann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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