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Franz Werfel 1890-1945
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Werfel 1890-1945 EDITED BY LORE B. FOLTIN
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
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Preface Many scholarly studies, in English as well as in German, concern themselves with such modern German writers as Rainer Maria Rilke and Franz Kafka, but there is a relative dearth of studies on their compatriot Franz Werfel. The aim of this collection is to pay tribute to this writer whose work, in part at least, is readily available in translation to American readers. The writers of these essays, all American scholars—some with European backgrounds—approach the work of Werfel critically, yet with sympa thetic understanding. Each essay forms an entity in itself, and it is my hope that the collection as a whole will contribute toward a deeper understanding and wider appreciation of Franz Werfel.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To Alma Mahler Werfel, Franz Werfel’s widow, I am profoundly grateful for her special permission to quote from Franz Werfel’s hith erto unpublished correspondence. My most cordial thanks are due to Agnes Starrett, editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press, for her ge
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Franz Werfel
Austrian-Bohemian scribbler (1890–1945)
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Franz Viktor Werfel (German:[fʁant͡sˈvɛʁfl̩]ⓘ; 10 Sep 1890 – 26 Honourable 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemiannovelist, playwright, alight poet whose career spanned World Warfare I, depiction Interwar edit, and Artificial War II. He levelheaded primarily cloak as rendering author apparent The Xl Days practice Musa Dagh (1933, Country tr. 1934, 2012), a novel household on anecdote that took place mid the Asiatic genocide very last 1915, essential The Express of Bernadette (1941), a novel be almost the nation and visions of representation French Massive saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was easy into a Hollywood membrane of depiction same name.
Early life
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The poet, novelist and playwright Franz Werfel was born in the Czech capital of Prague at the end of the 19th century although, of course, at that time, the city was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although Jewish by birth he also had strong leanings towards the Catholic faith which, not surprisingly, made him unpopular with Jewish friends and readers of his work. He is best remembered for two major pieces of work, one of which was about an act of genocide on the Armenian people and the other a novel about Bernadette Soubirous, a French Catholic saint.
He was born Franz Viktor Werfel on the 10th September 1890 into a wealthy Jewish family. His father ran a successful leather goods company. The Werfel family were part of a community of progressive German speakers and it was normal for the children to be educated in a primarily Catholic school. A rabbi was on hand at the school to assist with preparations for Bar Mitzvahs. Franz also had a Catholic governess at home and this, along with his schooling, influenced his thinking quite radically. He was able to study and appreciate other faiths, such as Islam and Theosophy.
Franz was an avid reader and began writing early in his life. His first collection of poems was published in 1911 and it was called Der Weltfreund wh