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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 29, 1965
Nephew to Speak At Mann Program
Klaus Pringsheim, assistant professor of political science and East Asian studies, will be the featured speaker at a special program commemorating the birthday of his famous uncle, Thomas Mann.
If Mann, a noted German author, were living, he would celebrate his 90th birthday June 6.
The discussion of Mann and his works will take place May 6 in the Reading Room of the Special Collections Department in Watson Library.
MANN WAS BORN in Germany on June 6,1875. He lived in the United States from 1937 until 1952.
A special display in his honor has been placed in the Special Collections Department of Watson Library. On May 6, one month before his birthday, the special program will be offered in his honor.
Pringsheim will take this opportunity to discuss Mann's ideas and works and pass on whatever experiences and knowledge he has of Mann's personal life.
"Mann left the United States under a political cloud and felt he was no longer politically comfortable in this country." Prof. Pringsheim said.
INCREASING POLITICAL pressures were brought to bear against him, especially from people in the McCarthy idealism, he said.
At the time, Mann was living in Southern California, he added, and even Mann's own congressman, Donald Jackson, subjected him to accusations in the press. They said that Mann was pro-Communist and leaned toward the left-wing.
Mann believed this "an infringement on his privacy and personal political beliefs," Prof. Pringsheim said. Mann thought the methods used by McCarthy and his followers were a disgrace to a free society and reminded him painfully of Germany under the Nazi regime.
MANN WAS AFRAID he would personally become involved, his nephew said. Rumors were heard that he might come under Congressional investigation.
Mann was then 77, Pringsheim said, and six years before he had undergone surgery for lung cancer and had one lung removed. Mann had barely survived the operation and was in precarious health.
At that time he wanted to complete many of his unfinished works including "Confessions of Felix Krull: Confidence Man."
Mann left in 1952 to avoid the
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Ph.D. Exam: Raymond E. Pippert, Mathematics, Thursday, April 29, 3:30 p.m. 119 Strong.
SUA Poetry Room, 4:00 p.m. Dr. M.D. Clubb, Music Room, Kansas Union.
Wesley Foundation Evensong 5:00 p.m.
Methodist Center, 1314 Gread.
Fres h m a-Sophomore Orientation
School), 7.00 p.m. 411 Sum-
Randfield
Young Christian Students Discussion,
7:15 p.m. St. Lawrence Student Center.
A.I.A.A., 7:30 p.m. Prof. C. J. Cholias-
menos, "Space Population Systems." Vir-
tral.
Students for a Democratic Society, 7:30 p.m. Kansas Union.
Religious Festival of Arts and Poetry,
8 p.m. Terrence Williams, Canterbury
House.
Christian Family Movement, 8:00 p.m.
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TOMORROW
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Catholic Masses 6:45 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
gathered in the Church. Confessions before
and during mass.
Wesley Foundation Holy Communion,
7:20 a.m. Methodist Center, 1314
Downtown Dr.
He never set foot in Adolph Hitler's Germany, but was a leader of the anti-Hitler and anti-Facism movements outside of Germany, Prof. Pringsheim said.
Golf. 1:00 p.m. Kansas State, Oklahoma.
Missouri at Lawrence
HE CAME TO THE U.S. as a political refugee.
Baseball, 1:30 p.m. Oklahoma State at Lawrence.
atmosphere under McCarthy. "The area had become repugnant to his taste." Prof. Pringsheim said.
Lecture, 3:30 p.m. Frank N. Trager,
NYU. "US. Role in South East Asia"
"Bachelor of Arts in Education."
Friday Flicks, 7:00 and 9:30 p.m. Fraser Theater.
Religious Festival of Arts, 8 a.m.
Pinterest Finger Exercise* Westminster
Center.
German Club "Walpurgischt Party"
The Pizza Palace Tickets in Blake annex.
"By no means was he forced to leave Germany. He actually was a resident in Switzerland when Hitler took power and decided not to return," he said.
Watchamacallit, 9:00 to 12 p.m. Hashing,
Hall.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Objects included in the Watson exhibit include "mostly things he personally gave to me when I lived with him in California between 1946 and 1952 or when I visited him in Europe." Prof. Pringsheim said.
MANN DEPLORED the methods used by the McCarthians and spoke out publically against them, especially the black-listing by Hollywood.
Mann was doubly sensitive to anything that slapped at mind control," Prof. Pringsheim said.
He went back to Switzerland where he lived for three years before he died. He completed some of the things he was working on.
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"They are my personal mementoes of a man who I had admired as a human begin and a contributor to German literature as well as an uncle." Pringsheim said.
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He acquired most of the collection over six to seven years.
MANY OF THE BOOKS in the exhibit are opened to the pages where he made a personal remark to his nephew. Others are part of the professor's own collection.
Prof. Pringsheim lost all of his collection during World War II in Japan and this is actually his second try at collecting Mann's works. The display will be left in the Special Collections Department until the end of school.
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