German president honours author Thomas Mann on his 150th birthday

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2025-06-06

Kiel, Germany (dpa) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier honoured Nobel prize winning author Thomas Mann on Friday at a ceremony to mark the 150 anniversary of the writer's birth in the port city of Lübeck. Steinmeier recalled Mann's commitment to democracy. In a speech in 1938, the Nobel Prize winner for literature said that "democracy today is not a secure asset, it is under attack, seriously threatened from within and without." Mann's me......

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