A patrician family of Luebeck merchants droops into oblivion in "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family," a lackluster adaptation of Thomas Mann's monumental novel. Big-name German cast is aces, but ...

ROME — BBC miniseries “Burn Up” and Teutonic pubcaster ARD’s “Buddenbrooks” were the big winners at the third Rome Fiction Festival for TV content on Saturday. “Burn Up,” in which oil company execs, ...

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Family sagas do not usually adapt well to the screen. With their profusion of characters and incidents, the two-hour plus format of the conventional feature film does not give them time to develop and ...

Historians and economists sometimes refer to the Buddenbrooks effect. The term derives from Thomas Mann's 1901 novel, Buddenbrooks, in which he depicted the decline of a bourgeois family (which rather ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Radio 4 Extra is celebrating German drama and literature alongside Radio 4’s Germany: Memories of a Nation, presented by the British Museum’s Neil MacGregor. Thomas Mann, winner of the Nobel Prize for ...

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Michael Maloney and Barbara Flynn star in this story of a German merchant family fighting to keep their commercial supremacy in the changing world of 1840's Europe. Dramatised by Judith Adams with ...