Franz Werfel (1890–1945)
Author of The Song of Bernadette
About the Author
Born in Prague of Jewish parents, Werfel served in World War I, then lived and wrote in Vienna until driven out by the Nazi occupation of Austria. And the Bridge Was Love: Memories of a Lifetime, by his wife, Alma Werfel, in collaboration with E. B. Ashton, is a deeply personal autobiography of a show more remarkable life in Vienna by the woman who was also married to the composer-conductor Mahler and the architect Gropius. Werfel escaped to the United States after the fall of France in 1940, where he won international recognition for his fiction. The most popular of Werfel's works was the novel The Song of Bernadette (1942), recounting the miraculous vision of the Virgin Mary granted to the young girl who founded Lourdes. Werfel said he wrote the story in honor of his "miraculous" escape from the Nazis but neither affirmed nor denied the miracle at Lourdes. Werfel also wrote lyrical poetry and drama. His comedy Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944) was successfully produced in New York in 1944. In 1967 the Hamburg Opera presented Giselher Klebe's operatic version of the play at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Franz Werfel
Paul Among the Jews — Author — 6 copies
Spiegelmensch : magische Trilogie 6 copies
Die Troerinnen des Euripides 4 copies
Beschwörungen 3 copies
Schweiger 3 copies
Drei Erzaehlungen 2 copies
Realismus und Innerlichkeit 2 copies
Einander : Oden, Lieder, Gestalten 2 copies
Eternal road: a drama in four parts 2 copies
Gedichte 2 copies
Wir sind : neue Gedichte 2 copies
A np̀olyi testvřek 1 copy
Jeremiáš - Slyšte hlas. II. 1 copy
Jeremiáš - Slyšte hlas. I. 1 copy
Embezzeled Heaven 1 copy
Franz Werfel. Gesammelte Werke in Einzelbänden - Taschenbuch-Ausgabe: Leben heißt, sich mitteilen. Betrachtungen,… (1992) 1 copy
Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift (Historischer Roman): Geschichte einer Liebe in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus (German… (2017) 1 copy
A kispolgár halála 1 copy
3 Novellen 1 copy
Verdi . Az opera regénye 1 copy
Juarez und Maximilian 1 copy
Der Attentäter — Contributor — 1 copy
Hamburger Lesehefte : Franz Werfel : Der Abituriententag — Text — 1 copy
LOS SEIS HERMANOS DE NAPOLES 1 copy
2006 1 copy
La messa nera 1 copy
Werfel Franz 1 copy
Esther, Kaiserin von Persien 1 copy
Der Besuch aus dem Elysium 1 copy
Gedichte aus dreissig Jahren 1 copy
Franz Werfel - Gesammelte Werke - Romane, Lyrik, Drama: Stern der Ungeborenen, Der veruntreute Himmel, Die Geschwister… (2016) 1 copy
Der Gerichtstag 1 copy
Die Macht des Schicksals 1 copy
Casa de duelo. Relatos 1 copy
Arien 1 copy
1990 1 copy
Spielhof : eine Phantasie 1 copy
Hearken unto the voice / 40 days of Musa Dagh — Author — 1 copy
Associated Works
The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Composer, some editions — 124 copies
Menschheitsdämmerung : Ein Dokument des Expressionismus : mit Biographien und Bibliographien (1920) — Contributor, some editions — 95 copies
The Dedalus/Ariadne Book of Austrian Fantasy: The Meyrink Years 1890-1930 (1992) — Contributor — 25 copies
Transit I 1988 : Oostenrijkse lyriek van de twintigste eeuw = Österreichische Lyrik des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (1989) — Contributor — 3 copies
Selecciones Reader's Digest: (libros condensados) El Gran Robo del Tren. Un Hombre Contra un Crucero. La Canción de… (1977) — Contributor — 2 copies
Halt auf freiem Felde : Eisenbahnabenteuer von Agatha Christie bis Tucholsky (1975) — Author — 1 copy
50 seltsame Geschichten — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Werfel, Franz Viktor
- Birthdate
- 1890-09-10
- Date of death
- 1945-08-26
- Burial location
- Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Austria (birth)
- Birthplace
- Prague, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Place of death
- Beverly Hills, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Prague, Austria-Hungary
Vienna, Austria
France
Los Angeles, California, USA
Leipzig, Germany - Occupations
- poet
playwright
novelist - Relationships
- Mahler, Alma (wife)
Kornfeld, Paul (friend)
Kisch, Egon Erwin (colleague) - Organizations
- Austro-Hungarian Army
Prague Circle - Awards and honors
- Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Nominee (1943)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1943)
Grillparzer Prize (1926)
Schiller Prize (1930)
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1937)
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Statistics
- Works
- 110
- Also by
- 24
- Members
- 2,721
- Popularity
- #9,441
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 41
- ISBNs
- 283
- Languages
- 17
- Favorited
- 5
- Touchstones
- 79