On June 6, 2003, at the initiative of the Kaliningrad Regional Cultural Foundation and the Svetlogorsk city administration, a memorial in the form of an open bronze book on a granite stone was installed near the wooden building that formed part of the Rauschen Resort Kurhaus complex. It is dedicated to Thomas Mann, one of the major writers of the 20th century and a Nobel Prize laureate in literature, commemorating his visit to Rauschen in 1929. It was here that he wrote his novella Mario und der Zauberer (Mario and the Magician), in which he portrayed the transformation of contemporary society in fantastical form. Another German writer and Nobel Prize laureate, Günter Grass, attended the unveiling.
Authors of the memorial: sculptors Lyudmila Bogatova and Oleg Salnikov.
