![]() He was buried in Cannes at the Cimetière du Grand Jas. He likely committed suicide because of financial problems and social isolation. Mann died in Cannes from an overdose of sleeping pills on, following further drug treatment. The ban was lifted and the novel published in West Germany in 1981. After seven years of legal hearings, the West German Supreme Court upheld the ban, although it continued to be available in East Germany and abroad. ![]() The literary scandal surrounding it made Mann posthumously famous in West Germany, as Gründgens' adopted son brought a legal case to have the novel banned after its first publication in West Germany in the early 1960s. The novel is a thinly-disguised portrait of his former brother-in-law, the actor Gustaf Gründgens. Mann's most famous novel, Mephisto, was written in 1936 and first published in Amsterdam. ![]() His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of secular Jews. Critics have focused on autobiographical aspects. ![]() Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. Klaus Manns Der fromme Tanz (1926) was the first German mainstream novel featuring a homosexual character. ![]()
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