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Although Heinrich Eduard Jacob visited Brazil in 1932, having written various articles about this trip in particular, and later three books on Brazilian issues, he is almost unknown in Brazil. The following paper, therefore, focuses on the biography of the journalist and writer and his Brazilian books "Hothouse South America" (1934), "Coffee. The Epic of a Commodity" (1935) and "Estrangeiro. Einwandererschicksal in Brasilien" (1951). Furthermore he is put in context with other German-speaking authors who wrote about Brazil in the thirties and forties. These were mainly émigrés fleeing the Nazism such as Stefan Zweig, Richard Katz, Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch, Frank Arnau and Marte Brill. Regarding the image of Brazil espoused by Jacob, it becomes clear that he, as so many other authors, saw in Brazil a "Land of a future" (as he called it) and an alleged existing "racial democracy". Nevertheless, he doesn’t refrain from revealing the proverbial Brazilian cordiality to be only appearance and from pointing out existing difficulties such as the politics regarding the coffee and the negative consequences of the nationalism promoted by the Vargas-Regime. By doing so, he took a view that opposed the one of his friend Stefan Zweig.
A origem brasileira de Thomas Mann, por parte de sua mãe, Julia da Silva Bruhns, deu ocasião, na maturidade do escritor, a seu contato com intelectuais brasileiros ou estrangeiros ligados à cena cultural do Brasil. No primeiro grupo, tem-se Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda e Erico Verissimo. Residentes no Brasil, Karl Lustig-Prean, que posteriormente retornará à Europa, e o tradutor Herbert Caro, que se radica em definitivo no Brasil. Também o contato direto ou indireto com pensadores e escritores como Karl Loewenstein, Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Marte Brill e Stefan Zweig colaboraram para a aproximação de Thomas Mann ao universo brasileiro. Estes e outros pontos de contato são descritos no presente artigo, que pretende difundir dados e documentos há muito inacessíveis ou inéditos, no sentido de contribuir com abordagens atualizadas da obra de Thomas Mann e oferecer à pesquisa especializada a indicação de dados biográficos e documentais relacionados ao escritor, no que concerne à sua relação com o Brasil.