The white gabled house at Mengstraße 4 in Lübeck has become famous as the setting for Thomas Mann’s novel Buddenbrooks. Since 1993 a permanent exhibition in the Buddenbrookhaus has been dedicated to the life and work of the Mann family, in particular the world bestseller Buddenbrooks, for which Thomas Mann received the Nobel Prize in 1929. From the beginning of 2020, the Buddenbrookhaus is closing its doors for an extensive renovation of the building and its exhibition. The Buddenbrook family of the novel is using this opportunity to present itself for a few years in a Lübeck town palais, the Behnhaus, for what would Lübeck be without the Buddenbrooks? No other place could be more suitably representative for the literary inhabitants: The Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus vividly conveys a feeling for the world of the Buddenbrooks and the Lübeck merchant society from which Heinrich and Thomas Mann came. Here, in the historical living rooms of the Behnhaus, the Lübeck novels Buddenbrooks and Professor Unrat come alive. Tony Buddenbrook knows everything about both the Manns and the Buddenbrooks. That is why she herself will personally guide you through the exhibition Buddenbrooks in the Behnhaus. She tells of her inventor, Thomas Mann, and his brother Heinrich, revealing some secrets along the way. Follow the Mann brothers into their childhood as the sons of a Lübeck Senator. Let Tony tell you how Heinrich and Thomas Mann rebelled against the stuffy bourgeois world from which they came, and became famous writers.weiterlesen