Blurb Summer retreat in Bavaria, 1918. The Thomas Mann family has rented a house on Lake Tegernsee. These are supposed to be carefree months - but the world is changing dramatically, and the writer will soon be a different person. The children swim and fish roach, the father rows, goes for a walk and climbs a mountain for the first time, the mother takes care of the new baby, and Bauschan, the dog, dozes in the shade while Thomas Mann makes him the hero of his story 'Herr und Hund'. An idyll, but the writer is plagued by worries. Germany's defeat in the First World War was imminent, revolution was in the air, and with his anti-democratic manifesto 'Reflections of an Unpolitical', Thomas Mann was historically on the wrong track. He has fallen out with his brother Heinrich because of this, he lacks the strength to work on the next great work 'The Magic Mountain', and then a tooth falls out. Kerstin Holzer writes with warmth and humor about a very special summer in the life of the Nobel Prize winner for literature, about his fears and longings. A feather-light story about the courage to change and the power of love. Biography Kerstin Holzer, born in Bonn in 1967, studied political science and German studies. After working as a journalist at the "FAZ" and "Focus", she worked as an author and freelance journalist, including for the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". Kerstin Holzer has a son and lives in Munich. She is married for the second time.