- Born
- Died
- Birth nameKatharina Hedwig Pringsheim
- Katia Mann was born on July 24, 1883 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was married to Thomas Mann. She died on April 25, 1980 in Kilchberg, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.
- SpouseThomas Mann(February 11, 1905 - August 12, 1955) (his death, 6 children)
- Was her husband's manager and the family provider.
- Due to a psychosomatic illness, she spent several months in sanatoriums, which inspired her husband Thomas Mann to his novel "The Magic Mountain".
- Is portrayed by Monica Bleibtreu in The Manns (2001).
- Born to Alfred Pringsheim, a Jewish mathematician, and his wife Hedwig, daughter of the noted feminist Hedwig Dohm, she grew up with four brothers in Munich.
- Gave birth to her 1st child at age 22, a daughter Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (aka Erika Mann) on November 9, 1905. Child's father is her late husband, Thomas Mann.
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