To mark the 150th birthday of Thomas Mann, the Lübeck Theater invites you to a special celebration honoring his lifelong connection to music.
"I remember hearing Lohengrin for the first time and then repeatedly as a young man, as a boy, as a schoolboy, in the somewhat inadequate Lübeck City Theater, and I will never forget this Lohengrin performance. It was later surpassed by much more magnificent and perfect ones, but my most grateful memories are still tied to these first memories of my youth..."
(Thomas Mann, 1954)
Thomas Mann's first life-forming musical and theater experiences took place at Lübeck's City Theater, which, during his childhood, stood on the same site in the Beckergrube as the theater today, but was a different building. To mark his 150th birthday, on June 6, 2025, Theater Lübeck, in cooperation with Buddenbrookhaus, is hosting a celebratory event at which Frido Mann, Thomas Mann's grandson, born in California in 1940, will deliver a speech. The Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of General Music Director Stefan Vladar, will play works that Thomas Mann particularly loved, works that accompanied him throughout his life, and which he presented to Süddeutscher Rundfunk in 1954 as the program of his personal "request concert" for a broadcast in the series "Wer wünsche was" (Who Wishes What).
June 6, 2025
