THE German novelist Thomas Mann set his masterpiece, 'The Magic Mountain,' in a sanitarium in Davos, Switzerland, Mann gained the inspiration for the story from his own stay in Davos.
First wordTHE German novelist Thomas Mann set his masterpiece, 'The Magic Mountain,' in a sanitarium in Davos, Switzerland, Mann gained the inspiration for the story from his own stay in Davos.His wife, Katia, was suffering from tuberculosis and had traveled to the recuperation spa at the woodland sanitarium in Davos. This afforded Thomas Mann extensive firsthand information on life in the sanitarium.The Waldhotel Davos operated as a woodland sanitarium until 1957.
Over the last decade, sometimes only two or three have made it to the picturesque Swiss mountain resort, and in 2017 only the UK's Theresa May made an appearance — although it did attract Chinese President Xi Jinping. Their reasons for absence often involved more pressing issues being tackled at home.But it does mark a decline from more recent years. The record was in 2018, when six of the seven attended.
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