Search results
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.
Franz Werfel was an Austrian poet, modernist playwright, and novelist. Several of his works were burned during the Nazi book burnings of 1933. Learn more.
Franz Werfel. 1890–1945. History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo. 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.
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?
Czech-born poet, playwright, and novelist, whose central themes were religious faith, heroism, and human brotherhood. Franz Werfel's best-known works include The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933), a classic historical novel that portrays Armenian resistance to the Turks, and The Song of Bernadette (1941).
Apr 24, 2015 · James Reidel. In The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel turned what might have been a footnote in the history of World War I—the deportation and mass murder of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenian minority—into an epic that was corroborated by many German sources and eyewitness accounts. April 24, 2015.
Related searches
