Tobias Mindernickel

"Tobias Mindernickel" is an early short story by Thomas Mann. Written in 1897, while Mann was living in Rome with his elder brother Heinrich it was first published in January 1898 in the German literary magazine Neue Deutsche Rundschau. It has subsequently appeared in several anthologies of Mann's short stories and novellas.

"Tobias Mindernickel"
Short story by Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann in 1900, two years after the publication of "Tobias Mindernickel"
Language	German
Genre(s)	Short story
Publication
Published in	Neue Deutsche Rundschau
Publication date	January 1898

English translations

• H. T. Lowe-Porter, published in Stories of Three Decades (Alfred Knopf, 1936)
• Joachim Neugroschel, published in Death in Venice and Other Stories (Penguin, 1998)
• Jefferson S. Chase, published in Death in Venice and Other Stories (Signet, 1999).^[1][2]