

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Author Reading by Morten Høi Jensen: The Master of Contradictions
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 07 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Sat, 07 Feb, 2026 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us when Morten Høi Jensen reads from and discusses his book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain.

This event is free. No registration necessary.

“The Master of Contradictions offers us a new way to think about Mann as a writer and pedagogue whose first object of education was himself. It is a worthy tribute to this fascinating writer.”—Susan Bernofsky, The Nation

“The Master of Contradictions is many things: a biography of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, a history of the Weimar Republic, and a story about one reader’s relationship to the most beguiling novel of the twentieth century. Morten Høi Jensen writes from a place of profound feeling and deep erudition. He is the perfect guide to the novel’s intricate, enchanted world; I did not want to stop exploring it with him.”—Merve Emre, contributing writer, New Yorker
 
Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875–1955) welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. He viewed it as a spiritual necessity, a chance to reassert German cultural dominance over Western ideas of democracy and enlightenment. Then, in 1924, he published The Magic Mountain, a massive novel that culminates in the slaughter of war and foreshadows the Nazi terror to come. One of the central achievements of modernism, The Magic Mountain bears testimony to its author’s dramatic political reorientation as a defender of democracy.
 
This poignant book is a biography of Mann’s great novel—its evolution from a short story into a two-volume masterpiece and one of the bestselling novels of the Weimar era. Deftly weaving together elements of biography, history, and literary criticism, Morten Høi Jensen reveals how writing The Magic Mountain against a backdrop of world war, revolution, hyperinflation, and rising right-wing terror moved Mann to embrace the democratic and humanistic ideas he once scorned.
 
One hundred years after The Magic Mountain was first published, at a time when democratic ideas are again under threat, Jensen reveals the universality and timeliness of Mann’s great novel—its still-resonant debates over democracy and tyranny, time and place, illness and death.

Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer and critic. He is the author of A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen and has contributed to numerous publications, including the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, Commonweal, and Liberties, where he is the European Liaison.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Munich
- **state**: BY
- **country**: Germany
- **location**: Augustenstraße 104, 80798 Munich, Germany
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- **organizer**: The Munich Readery (https://allevents.in/org/the-munich-readery/4068752)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 07 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
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