Thomas Mann | “The Magic Mountain”

The young engineer Hans Castorp, the protagonist of "The Magic Mountain", travels from Hamburg to Davos.
What connections exist between the detailed railway journey described in the literary text, the development of the lung spa resort of Davos and the development of the Swiss railway infrastructure? How do social and technical developments interact? And what role did the then Polytechnic, today's ETH Zurich, play historically? Dr Thomas Eichenberger, Historian at the
Professorship for Cartography at ETH Zurich, answers these questions.
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Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" was published 100 years ago. To mark the anniversary year, the Thomas Mann Archive is producing a video series: documents from its own collections and recordings of historical locations form the backdrop against which experts take a new look at the novel.
“The Magic Mountain” - 100 Years: We celebrate with you: tma.ethz.ch/ne...
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The Thomas Mann Archive is part of the collections and archives of the ETH Library in Zurich. It preserves the literary estate of the writer Thomas Mann and receives or advises interested parties and researchers from Switzerland and abroad. A permanent exhibition, which is open to the public every day, provides an insight into the archive's holdings, his life and his working methods: tma.ethz.ch/au...
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We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the realisation of our video project.
In particular: Thomas Eichenberger; the descendants of Sven Walser; the Ernst Deutsch Theater; the Rhaetian Railway (RhB); Historic RhB; Club 1889; volldampf.TV