In fact, he was seen as the public voice of his generation, and was considered to be the centre of a controversial literary movement sometimes called ‘Das Jüngste Deutschland’ (Youngest Germany) together with his sister Erika and their friend Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Critics found fault with the limitedness of his topics, which revolved mostly around youth, (homo-)sexuality, the problems of an intellectual jeunesse dorée, and the generational conflicts of the young German post-war generation with their parents. At the age of 19, he was already the focus of considerable critical public attention. He was considered to be a literary enfant terrible of the Weimar Republic. Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann (born 1906 in Munich, died 1949 in Cannes), the son of Nobel prize winning writer Thomas Mann and nephew of famous novelist Heinrich Mann, was a novelist, essayist, and dramatist.
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