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Thomas Mann, born in Lübeck in 1875, lived in Munich since 1894. He left Germany in 1933 and lived first in Switzerland on Lake Zurich, then in the United States where he accepted a professorship at Princeton University in 1938. Later he had his residence in California, then again in Switzerland. He died in Zurich on 12 August 1955 and Thomas Mann is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. With it the modern German novel reached the connection to world literature. Mann's extensive and multi-faceted work has met with a positive response that is hard to beat worldwide. For his first great novel Die Buddenbrooks he was awarded with the Nobel prize for literature in 1929.