Abstract

This article shows in some detail that the colour pink functions as a leitmotif in Thomas Mann’s 1939 novel Lotte in Weimar. The basic link to Werther is established via the pink ribbon, which is missing on the white dress which the aging Charlotte Kestner wears during a dinner at Goethe’s house in 1816. Mann’s meticulous weaving of a red or even pink thread through the narrative, however, goes far beyond this detail. A closer investigation of the role the colour pink plays in his novel reveals a subtle network of political, erotic and literary allusions, reaching from Goethe’s Divan to James Joyce’s Ulysses.

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