page_title: Lübeck
section_title: Writing
hierarchical_section_title: Lübeck / Notable people / Writing
caption_attribution_description: Luiz Heinrich Mann and Thomas Mann
context_page_description: Lübeck, officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  , is a city in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. On the river Trave, it was the leading city of the Hanseatic League, and because of its extensive Brick Gothic architecture, it is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. In 2015, it had a population of 218,523.
  The old part of Lübeck is on an island enclosed by the Trave. The Elbe–Lübeck Canal connects the Trave with the Elbe River. Another important river near the town centre is the Wakenitz. Autobahn 1 connects Lübeck with Hamburg and Denmark. Travemünde is a sea resort and ferry port on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Lübeck Hauptbahnhof links Lübeck to a number of railway lines, notably the line to Hamburg.
context_section_description: Erasmus Finx (1627-1694), polyhistorian, author and church writer
  Christian Adolph Overbeck (1755-1821), mayor and poet
  Johann Bernhard Vermehren (1777-1803), romanticist and lecturer
  Emanuel Geibel (1815-1884), poet>
  Gustav Falke (1853-1916), author
  Heinrich Mann (1871-1950), novelist (Professor Unrat)
  Thomas Mann (1875-1955), novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929
  Jörg Wontorra (born 1948), German sport journalist
caption: Heinrich (left) and Thomas Mann in 1902
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