Isn't it just? Shame Loriot never did a sketch about Thomas Mann & Co. On a more serious note, I'm still disgruntled Heinrich Breloer chose to start his tv series Die Manns in the 1920s, thus completely avoiding both the climax of the Thomas/Heinrich drama and the existence of Carla and Lula, instead focusing on Thomas the patriarch and Klaus & Erika, with Heinrich and Nelly occasionally showing up as minor characters. Also the guy who plays Gustav Gründgens has zero charisma, but that's a minor issue. I mean, the series is good for what it is, and he even got the waiter whom Thomas fancied in the 1950s on camera, but seriously, wrong narrative emphasis, Breloer!