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“A Political Creed” by Hans Wißkirchen In today’s reading section, Hans Wißkirchen, President of the German Thomas Mann Society, thinks about how the depiction of the magician also mirrors Mann’s own political beliefs. 

Donna Rifkind on “Mario and the Magician” And another insightful contribution for day three of #MutuallyMann: “What had been an experience became a novella — and as much, what had been a novella became an act of becoming.“ – Author Donna Rifkind (“The Sun and Her Stars”) takes Mann’s quote about writing “Mario and the Magician“ as a starting point …

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Friedhelm Marx on “Mario and the Magician”  Day three of #MutuallyMann is getting spooky:  Friedhelm Marx, Professor of German literature and a 2020 Thomas Mann Fellow, talks about the uncanny in Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” and its hidden political meaning.