Literary places in Lübeck

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann

A Hanseatic grain-merchant family declines over four generations in a Baltic city Mann never names but rebuilds street by street. It is unmistakably his native Lübeck: the family's grand house on Mengstraße, the Marienkirche where they worship, the Holstentor and the quays along the Trave, and Travemünde at the river mouth where Tony holidays. The map runs from the old-town islands north-east to the Baltic resort, and brings Germany into the atlas.

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