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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. The son of a glove manufacturer, Werfel left home to work in ...
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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. The boy spent much of his early life in the care of a Czech nanny, Barbara ...
May 29, 2018 · Franz Werfel. 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. He studied at the universities of Prague, Leipzig, and Hamburg and then worked (1912-1914) as a ...
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 ...
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).
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 ...
