WERFEL, FRANZ

fränts vĕrˈfəl, 1890–1945, Austrian writer, b. Prague. He expressed his belief in the brotherhood of man in lyric verse, in expressionist and conventional plays, and in novels. He fled from Nazi-occupied Austria to France and then to the United States. Besides several volumes of poems, his work includes the dramas Bockgesang (1921, tr. Goat Song, 1926), Juarez und Maximilian (1924, tr. 1926), Paulus unter den Juden (1926, tr. Paul among the Jews, 1928), and the comedy Jacobowsky und der Oberst (1945; adaptation by S. N. Behrman, Jacobowsky and the Colonel, 1944). He is best known in the United States for the novels Vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (1933, tr. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, 1934), recounting the struggle of the Armenians against the Turks in World War I, and Das Lied von Bernadette (1941, tr. The Song of Bernadette, 1942), about the saint from Lourdes.

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books on: Werfel Franz  - 381 results

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Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siecle
Book by Scott Spector; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: German Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, German Literature--Czech Republic--Prague--History And Criticism, German Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Homes And Haunts--Czech Republic--Prague, Prague (Czech Republic)--Intellectual Life
...Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1913. Werfel, Franz. Absage an den Expressionismus...Langen Muller, 1975), 591 92. Werfel, Franz. Aphorismus zu diesem Jahr. Die Aktion 4 (1914): 902 5. Werfel, Franz. Barbara oder die Frommigkeit...
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Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka
Book by Stanley Corngold; Princeton University Press, 2006
Subjects: Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Criticism And Interpretation
...Samuel and Shierry, 159 Weimar Republic, 165 Weineck, Silke, 6 7 Weiss, Theodore, 205n5 Wensinger, Arthur, 181 Werfel, Franz, 95 Wesley, John, 70 Whitman, Walt, 178 Wilde, Oscar, 71, 194, 224n13 Wilkins, Eithne. See Kaiser, Ernst...
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Franz Kafka and Prague
Book by Pavel Eisner; Golden Griffin Books, 1950
Subjects: Kafka, Franz--1883-1924, Prague (Czech Republic)
...problems of existence in Prague. Let Franz Werfel be a witness; for he was Kafka...Baroque; just as Kafka stands to Werfel in a tense relationship of admiration...disgust, love, envy, and hate. Franz Werfel, almost at the same time as Kafka...
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The Culturally Complex Individual: Franz Werfel's Reflections on Minority Identity and Historical Depiction in The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Book by Rachel Kirby; Bucknell University Press, 1999
Subjects: History In Literature, Identity (Psychology) In Literature, Minorities In Literature, Turkey--In Literature
...heritage of, 21-22; ideology of, 20, 25 Werfel, Alma Mahler, 52, 59, 61 Werfel, Franz: Bohemia as Heimat and, 22; translator of...159; We Are, 18; The World Friend, 127 Werfel, Mizi, 62 Where i8 ... (Hofmannsthal...
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Briefe, 1902-1924
Book by Franz Kafka; Schocken Books, 1958
Subjects: Authors, Austrian--20th Century--Correspondence, Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Correspondence
...Irma 156 f . Weltsch, Lise siehe auch Kaznelson 118 , 125 , 127 , 128 f ., 450 , 503 8 Weltsch, Robert 170 , 220 Werfel, Franz 114 , 179 , 186 , 196 , 206 , 213 , 226 , 302 , 363 , 366 , 369 , 371 , 422 , 423 , 424 , 424 f ., 473 , 481 , 482...
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journal articles on: Werfel Franz  - 23 results

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Practising 'Binding Girls with Writing': Kafka's Failed Correspondence with Hedwig Weiler
Journal article by Julian Preece; Journal of European Studies, 2002
Subjects: Kafka, Franz--Criticism and interpretation, Letters (Correspondence)--Criticism and interpretation, Letters--Criticism and interpretation
...by Julian Preece In the gallery of Franz Kafkas correspondents, the (for...some were lost: the writers, Franz Werfel (1890-1945) and Ernst Weiss...According to Ernst Pawel, whose Life of Franz Kafka appeared half a century after...
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Notes for Notes
Journal article by Dena J. Epstein; Music Library Association. Notes, Vol. 61, 2004
...preserve the papers of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel. The Mahler-Werfel collection...of Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964) and her third husband...poet, playwright, and novelist, Franz Werfel (1890-1945). The collection...
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Recordare - Never to Forget*
Journal article by Alexander L. Ringer; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 13, 1993
Subjects: Lessem, Alan, Music history, Musical recordings, Musicians & conductors, Personal profiles
...the people recognized my face." Franz Werfel, Alma Mahlers third husband, may...Matthew Passion, its presumed model, Werfel and Weill sought to depict rather...deliberate symbolism. Still, while Werfel proved himself to be more than Picanders...
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Rehearing Buber's Jesus Deepens Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Journal article by Kenneth P. Kramer; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 44, 2009
Subjects: Buber, Martin--Works, Christian-Jewish relations--Analysis, Christianity and other religions--Analysis, Christianity and other religions--Judaism, Jesus Christ--Evaluation, Messiah--Evaluation, Theologians--Works
...from him. (4) Martin Buber to Franz Werfel (Match 17, 1917) in Nahum N...Jewish Bible," in Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, Scripture and Translation...p. 75. (27) Martin Buber to Franz Werfel (March 17, 1917) in Glatzer...
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The Adventures of Voskovec and Werich in America, 1939-1945
Journal article by Jarka M. Burian; Slavic and East European Performance, Vol. 26, 2006
Subjects: Comedians, Czechoslovakia, Musical theater, Popularity, United States, Voskovec, Jiri, Werich, Jan
...Werich, with texts by Stephen Vincent Benet, Brecht, Werfel, Heinrich Mann, Kurt Weill, and Fritz von Unruh...became a big hit, Jakobowsky and the Colonel, written by Franz Werfel and directed by Elia Kazan. Earlier, in February...
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magazine articles on: Werfel Franz  - 18 results

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Los Angeles: Viennese Waltz
Magazine article by Rob Kendt; American Theatre, Vol. 21, September 2004
Subjects: Mahler-Werfel, Alma--Portrayals, Manker, Paulus--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Manker, Paulus--Works, Theatrical directors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theatrical directors--Works, Theatrical producers and directors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theatrical producers and directors--Works
...husbands. From Vienna to Los Angeles, Alma Mahler-Werfel (nee Schindler) had a knack for being at the right...S. stop, where, with her third husband, author Franz Werfel, she was at the center of a lively expatriate community...
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'The Insatiable Fiction of Desire'
Magazine article by Elise Harris; The Nation, Vol. 273, December 3, 2001
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Dangerous Muse (Book), The Artist's Wife (Book)
...Holt. 254 pp. $23. Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964) and Lady Caroline...founder Walter Gropius and writer Franz Werfel; Caroline married painter Lucian...Phillips, in a novel based on Mahler-Werfel, take on a challenging task in resurrecting...
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Underground Railroad
Magazine article by Blanche Wiesen Cook; The Nation, Vol. 266, April 6, 1998
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Exhibitions, World War II, 1939-1945--Exhibitions
...Chagall, Lion Feuchtwanger, Wanda Landowska, Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel (who smuggled out Mahlers manuscripts), and...aged and portly refugees like Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel for the eight-hour trek across the Pyrenees...
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Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 277, April 1997
Subjects: German writers, Poets, Rilke, Rainer Maria
...And unlike Rilkes contemporary Franz Kafka, who performed his tasks as...personal correspondence), referring to Franz Werfel as a "Jew-boy," and some murky...negative views on the superambitious Werfel, who emigrated to America and...
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Cafe Kultur: The Coffeehouses of Vienna
Magazine article by Gabrielle Robinson, Mike Keen; Contemporary Review, Vol. 269, July 1996
Subjects: Coffeehouses--Social aspects, Vienna, Austria--Social aspects
...given the sacks as pay. In this way Franz Kolschitzky started the first coffeehouse...Alban Berg and the operetta composer Franz Lehar; philosophers like Ludwig...Wittgenstein; writers like Robert Musil, Franz Werfel, Herrman Broch and Elias Canetti...
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newspaper articles on: Werfel Franz  - 10 results

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Born without Sin
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 7, 2010
Subjects: The Song of Bernadette (Novel)
...known Jewish writer, France Werfel, and his wife had just slipped...our Lady is located. That night Franz Werfel went to the shrine. Standing alone...Lourdes to whom the non-believer Franz Werfel desperately went for help. The...
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Immaculate Conception Falls within Advent
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 8, 2006
...well-known Jewish writer, France Werfel, and his wife had just slipped across...our Lady is located. That night Franz Werfel went to the shrine. * * * Standing...for all the world to read." * * * Werfel returned to the village. He told...
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Movies; Mini-Reviews
Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, June 14, 2001
...hoot, ostensibly meant to glorify Alma Schindler Mahler Werfel as a preemiment muse and consort of a century ago, but...Oskar Kokoschka, architect Walter Gropius and novelist Franz Werfel add to the stuffy, defensively feminist superficiality...
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Movies; Mini-Reviews
Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, June 28, 2001
...hoot, ostensibly meant to glorify Alma Schindler Mahler Werfel as a preemiment muse and consort of a century ago, but...Oskar Kokoschka, architect Walter Gropius and novelist Franz Werfel add to the stuffy, defensively feminist superficiality...
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Pornographic Paintings, Studio Orgies and the Weird World of the 'Peasant Picasso'; AS FOUR PAINTINGS BY GUSTAV KLIMT ARE SOLD AT AUCTION FOR A RECORD-BREAKING [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; November 10, 2006
...wellborn woman who slipped from his grasp was Alma Mahler-Werfel, known as the most beautiful girl in Vienna. Klimt...architect Walter Gropius and, finally, the young poet Franz Werfel, who took her to the United States. Poor Klimt could...
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encyclopedia articles on: Werfel Franz  - 3 results

 
 
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Werfel, Franz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WERFEL, FRANZ frants ver f l, 1890 1945, Austrian writer, b. Prague. He expressed his belief in the brotherhood of man in lyric verse...
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Weill, Kurt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Flight (1929); and The Eternal Road (1934), a pageant of Jewish history originally composed in German with text by Franz Werfel . Weill became a U.S. citizen in 1943. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Vienna , City and Province, Austria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...who gave it a further period of musical greatness. Krauss, Werfel, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, and Wassermann dominated the literary...in 1961. Bibliography See A. J. May, Vienna in the Age of Franz Josef (1966); I. Lehne and L. Johnson, Vienna The Past...


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