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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 events that took place during the Armenian genocide of ...
The Song of Bernadette (German: Das Lied von Bernadette) is a 1941 novel that tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France.The novel was written by Franz Werfel and translated into English by Lewis Lewisohn in 1942. [1] It was extremely popular, spending more than a year on the New York ...
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (German: Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh) is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian genocide.. The novel focuses on the self-defense by a small community of Armenians living near Musa Dagh, a mountain in Vilayet of Aleppo in the Ottoman ...
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. Shortly afterward he
Franz Werfel, fotografiert 1940 von Carl van Vechten. Franz Viktor Werfel (* 10.September 1890 in Prag, Österreich-Ungarn; † 26. August 1945 in Beverly Hills) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller jüdisch-deutschböhmischer Herkunft. Er flüchtete vor der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft ins Exil und wurde 1941 US-amerikanischer Staatsbürger. Er war ein Wortführer des lyrischen ...
May 9, 2006 · The Song of Bernadette. Paperback – May 9, 2006. This is the classic work that tells the true story surrounding the miraculous visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France in 1858. Werfel, a highly respected anti-Nazi writer from Vienna, became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death in 1940, and wrote this moving story to fulfill ...
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Franz Werfel (1890-1945), Austrian poet, modernist playwright, and novelist, was born in Prague, the son of a Jewish merchant. During World War I, Werfel served for several years on the Russian front as a soldier in the Austrian army. A friend of authors Max Brod and Franz Kafka, Werfel later moved to Vienna and Berlin.
Franz Werfel. 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 (“Babi”) Simunkova, who took him to Roman Catholic mass with her ...
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).Werfel also greatly contributed to the development of expressionist poetry in the German language, and in 1929, he was awarded the Grillparzer Prize by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for ...
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 ...
