Andrea Weiss is professor in the Film/Video Program at the City College of New York and the author of Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank and Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film. She has been an independent filmmaker for over twenty-five years, and her documentary Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story was released on DVD in 2008.

“Andrea Weiss proves here that complex life forms can thrive in the dark. In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain illuminates not only its primary subjects, Erika and Klaus Mann, but also the father who overshadowed them. A brilliant and important work of historical and literary portraiture.”

• Preface1   Kindertheater2   Journey without Sleep3   The Lights Go Down4   Pathetic Symphony5   Escape to Life6   The Turning Point7   The Last Day8   Rainy Night, Windy MorrowNotesIndex

Andrea Weiss is professor in the Film/Video Program at the City College of New York and the author of Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank and Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film. She has been an independent filmmaker for over twenty-five years, and her documentary Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story was released on DVD in 2008.

“Andrea Weiss proves here that complex life forms can thrive in the dark. In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain illuminates not only its primary subjects, Erika and Klaus Mann, but also the father who overshadowed them. A brilliant and important work of historical and literary portraiture.”

• Preface1   Kindertheater2   Journey without Sleep3   The Lights Go Down4   Pathetic Symphony5   Escape to Life6   The Turning Point7   The Last Day8   Rainy Night, Windy MorrowNotesIndex

Andrea Weiss is professor in the Film/Video Program at the City College of New York and the author of Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank and Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film. She has been an independent filmmaker for over twenty-five years, and her documentary Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story was released on DVD in 2008.

“Andrea Weiss proves here that complex life forms can thrive in the dark. In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain illuminates not only its primary subjects, Erika and Klaus Mann, but also the father who overshadowed them. A brilliant and important work of historical and literary portraiture.”

• Preface1   Kindertheater2   Journey without Sleep3   The Lights Go Down4   Pathetic Symphony5   Escape to Life6   The Turning Point7   The Last Day8   Rainy Night, Windy MorrowNotesIndex