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- Franz Werfel was a German-language writer who attained prominence as an Expressionist poet, playwright, and novelist. His works espoused human brotherhood, heroism, and religious faith. The son of a glove manufacturer, Werfel left home to work in a Hamburg shipping house.
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Franz Viktor Werfel ( German: [fʁant͡s ˈvɛʁfl̩] ⓘ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian - Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.
Apr 15, 2024 · Franz Werfel (born Sept. 10, 1890, Prague [now in Czech Republic]—died Aug. 26, 1945, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) was a German-language writer who attained prominence as an Expressionist poet, playwright, and novelist. His works espoused human brotherhood, heroism, and religious faith.
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One of the leading 20th-century literary figures of pre-Nazi Austria, Franz Werfel was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1890, the first child of a Jewish glove manufacturer and his wife.
May 29, 2018 · The Austrian poet, novelist, and playwright Franz Werfel (1890-1945) was a leading representative of the expressionist movement in German literature. Franz Werfel was born on Sept. 10, 1890, in Prague, the son of a Jewish businessman.
Franz Viktor Werfel was a Jewish-born Austrian novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his works of historical fiction, including The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933) and The Song of Bernadette (1941).
Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.
Mar 11, 1990 · Werfel died of heart failure in Los Angeles in 1945. How does one judge a life and a career such as Werfel’s? He was a weak man, and in many ways not admirable, but he seems to have been...