ALL AROUND - Adventures of a World Tour

In the fall of 1927, Erika and Klaus Mann set off on a trip around the world together. For over nine months, they traveled through the USA, visited Hawaii, Japan, Korea and the Soviet Union. They met celebrities from Greta Garbo to Emil Jannings and discovered many unknown things.
On their return, the siblings wrote an anecdote-filled, humorous account of their experiences. In this edition of this unique document, the 35 photos from the first edition of 1929 are also reprinted, and Uwe Naumann reports on the unknown background to the unusual journey in his afterword.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 01.02.1993
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-13931-4
  • 176 Pages
  • Authors: Erika MannKlaus Mann

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Erika Mann Klaus Mann ALL AROUND - Adventures of a World Tour
Portrait von Erika Mann
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Erika Mann

Erika Mann was born on 9 November 1905 in Munich. She first worked as an actress and journalist. At the beginning of 1933 she founded the cabaret "Die Pfeffermühle" in Munich; a few weeks later she went into exile with the whole troupe. From 1936 she lived mainly in the USA as a lecturer and publicist. During the Second World War, she participated in the BBC's German programs and was a war correspondent for the Allies. In 1952 she returned to Europe with her parents. She died in Zurich on the 27th of August, 1969.

Portrait von Klaus Mann
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Klaus Mann

Klaus Mann was born in Munich in 1906, the first child of Thomas and Katia Mann. He began his literary career as the enfant terrible of the Weimar Republic. After 1933 he became an important figure in the German literary elite that had been forced into exile by the Nazis. Klaus Mann’s death in 1949 in Cannes was caused by an overdose of sleeping pills.