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- Thomas Mann was probably Germany's most influential author of the 20th century, receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Born on 6 June 1875 in Lübeck, his family moved to Munich in 1893, where he lived until 1933 and wrote some of his most successful novels like "Buddenbrocks" (1901), "Death in Venice" (1912) or "The Magic Mountain" (1924). After the Nazi takeover, the humanist and anti-fascist, married to Katia Pringsheim, daughter of a secular Jewish family, emigrated to Switzerland, then to Princeton and Pacific Palisades in the United States, where he finished his great tetra-logy "Joseph and His Brothers" in 1942. Two years later, he became a naturalized US citizen, but finally returned to Europe in 1952. The famous analyst and critique of the German and European soul died on 12 August 1955 in Kilberg near Zurich.
- Katia Mann was born on 24 July 1883 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was married to Thomas Mann. She died on 25 April 1980 in Kilchberg, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.
- Conrad Ferdinand Meyer was born on 11 October 1825 in Zurich, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for Violanta (1977), Gustav Adolfs Page (1960) and Der Schuß von der Kanzel (1942). He was married to Johanna Louise Ziegler. He died on 28 November 1898 in Kilchberg, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.
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Mani Matter was born on 4 August 1936 in Herzogenbuchsee, Switzerland. He was a writer and composer, known for Dällebach Kari (1970), Die Hose (2013) and Züri West - Am Blues vorus (2002). He was married to Joy Matter. He died on 24 November 1972 in Kilchberg, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.- Klaus Bartels was born on 19 February 1936 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He died on 2 April 2020 in Kilchberg, Switzerland.