Giramondo Publishing
House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann - Evelyn Juers
Winner of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction
In 1933 the author and activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in the south of France.
Later, in great despair, they settled in Los Angeles, where Nelly committed suicide in 1944 and Heinrich died in 1950.Their story is crossed by others from their circle, including Heinrich’s brother Thomas Mann, his sister Carla, their friends Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, and Joseph Roth, and the writers James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf and Nettie Palmer. In train compartments, ship’s cabins and rented rooms, they called upon what was left to them — their bodies, their minds, their books — and amidst the debris of an era of self-destruction, built their own annexes to the House of Exile.
Evelyn Juers has lived in Hamburg, Sydney, London and Geneva. She has a PhD from the University of Essex on the Brontës and the practice of biography. Her essays on art and literature have appeared in a wide range of Australian and international publications.
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