All I’ve got is a s-s-s-single bed

Klaus Mann entertains gentlemen callers in a new Berlin exhibition which also addresses sister Erika

Pearls: Erika Mann

“An investigation has been going on that could not help casting doubts upon my character…”

Circles: Erika and Klaus Mann

Just an everyday tale of boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy has affair with other boy whose sister is having an affair with his wife, said affair being the subject of a thinly-veiled play by the other boy in which all four protagonists perform. Shall we begin?

Faustian act

Safe in exile, Klaus Mann was struck by the parallels between Gustaf Gründgens’ greatest stage role and the Faustian nature of his arrangement with Goering, and put them, thinly veiled, into his novel, Mephisto.