Lutetia Circle
A committee named after the Parisian Hotel Lutetia which aimed to build a German People’s Front; it met for the first time in September 1935 on the initiative of Willi Münzenberg
Magen David Adom
also MDA (literally: Red Shield of David), sister organisation oft he Intenational Red cross founded in 1930.
Mahler-Werfel, Alma
1879-1964, trained composer, hostess in cultural salons in Vienna and in exile, wife of the writer Franz Werfel.
Mailer, Norman
1923-2007, US writer, grew up in New York, first successes after the Second World War (The Naked and the Dead, 1948), awarded the 1969 Pulitzer Prize
Malraux, André
1901-1976, writer and politician, a communist and one of France’s leading intellectuals in the 1930s; broke with communism and went on to be French minister of culture under de Gaulle from 1959 to 1969
Mann, Golo
1909-1994, third eldest child of Thomas and Katia Mann, established himself following the Second World War as one of the Federal Republic of Germany’s most important historians when he published his main work Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (1958: History of Germany in the 19th and 20th Century)
Mann, Katia
(1883-1980), née Pringsheim, wife of Thomas Mann
Mann, Nelly
1898-1944, née Kröger, married the writer Heinrich Mann, who was 27 years her senior, in 1939, whom she had had a relationship with since 1929. Increasingly addicted to alcohol in the 1930s, she took her life with an overdose of sleeping pills on 17 December 1944 while in exile in the USA.
Marcuse, Ludwig
1894-1971, philosopher and writer, lived from 1933 to 1939 in exile in Sanary-sur-Mer before ultimately moving to the USA
Margold, Emanuel
1888 – 1962, artist from the Wiener Werkstätten, architect, designer and graphic artists from Vienna, was appointed to the Darmstädter Künstlerkolonie (artists‘ colony) in 1911 and worked there until 1929.
