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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. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on ...
- Novelist, playwright, poet
- Hanna Fuchs-Robettin (sister)
- 26 August 1945 (aged 54), Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
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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Franz Werfel was a Jewish author who wrote novels such as The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and The Song of Bernadette. He was targeted by the Nazis for his pacifism, humanism, and opposition to nationalism.
Franz Werfel was a leading 20th-century literary figure of pre-Nazi Austria, who wrote poetry, drama and fiction. He was influenced by Expressionism, Judaism and music, and had a brief affair with Alma Mahler Gropius. He wrote Verdi: Roman der Oper, a best-selling novel about the composer, and The Song of Bernadette, a classic of Holocaust literature.
Mar 11, 1990 · Franz Werfel knew everybody: Rilke, Schnitzler, Musil, Zweig, Berg, Freud, Thomas Mann. As a young man, he was the companion of two other writers, Franz Kafka and Max Brod, who frequented the ...
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Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh , a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette , a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint ...
Franz Werfel. 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).
