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	Franz Werfel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Franz Werfel (September 10, 1890 – August 26, 1945) was a Austrian-Czech novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German.
		Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), he was a contemporary and colleague of Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Martin Buber, and other Jewish intellectuals at the turn of the 20th century.
		Franz Werfel died in Los Angeles in 1945 and was interred there in the Rosendale Cemetery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franz_Werfel (382 words)

	Franz Werfel Human Rights Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Franz Werfel Human Rights Award (German: Franz-Werfel-Menschenrechtspreis) is one of the most prestigous international human rights awards in Europe.
		It is awarded to individuals or groups who through political, artistic, philosophical or practial work have opposed breaches of human rights by genocide, ethnic cleansing and the deliberate destruction of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups.
		The award is named after the famous Austrian author Franz Werfel (1890-1945), whose novel The 40 days of Musa Dagh famously portrayed the displacement of the Armenians from Turkey and the genocide of the Armenians in 1915/16.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franz_Werfel_Human_Rights_Award (294 words)

	Werfel Franz English
		Werfel's verse trilogy 'Der Spiegelmensch' (1921) was inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust and Henrik Ibsen's Per Gynt.
		In the preface Werfel stated that his intention is to 'magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind'.
		There the narrator (named Franz Werfel) is guided by a mentor and he observes the ultimate spiritual and technological development of the humankind.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /werfel_franz_english.html (1006 words)

	German Exiles: Feuchtwanger Memorial Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Czech-born, Austrian-Jewish writer Franz Werfel married Alma Mahler (widow of composer Gustav Mahler) in 1929.
		In 1940, the Werfels along with Heinrich Mann and his nephew Golo Mann fled by foot over the rugged Pyrenees to Spain, ultimately leaving Europe for the United States.
		Franz Werfel died in Los Angeles during the summer of 1945 and was buried in Rosendale Cemetary.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/exiles/werfel.html (405 words)

	Commentary Magazine - On the Horizon: Franz Werfel: Reporter of the Sublime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		...Werfel, a youth of twenty-five reluctantly wearing uniform, saw the prisoner, tormented and sick to death, before he was shipped off to his certain end in the dungeon of Theresienstadt...
		...And this public, festive quality was another part of 273COMMENTARY his Austrian heritage: Franz Werfel, the Prague Jew whom Hitler's laws drove half around the world, bore in the depth of his being the imprint of the Baroque style that is preserved, gleaming and luxuriant, in the churches and palaces of his native land...
		...It was from Austrian journalism that Werfel learned the art of the headline-the titles of his novels, as of each single one of his poems, are cabinet pieces of summation-it was here that he learned the sudden eruption of the narrative without preparation or exposition...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V9I3P80-1.htm (1603 words)

	ALMA : Franz Werfel
		When, in November 1917, Alma became acquainted with the young poet Franz Werfel, the person she described as a »fat bow-legged Jew with bulging lips« did not displease her at all; indeed, a passionate liaison erupted between them.
		Werfel, who was eleven years younger, saw in Alma his saviour, his goddess, someone whom he was allowed to worship.
		The baby was born prematurely, since Werfel was unable to hold back his insatiable lust and forced the child out of his loved one´s womb in a veritable bloodbath.
	www.alma-mahler.at /engl/almas_life/werfel.html (311 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Franz Werfel, by Peter Stephan Jungk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Posterity has not been kind to Franz Werfel, born in 1890 and on his death in 1945 perhaps one of the most famous and successful German writers of the 20th century.
		...Werfel loved the Church's wealth of imagery, and its opulence, and he perceived an affinity between Catholicism and his beloved Italian operas, the supreme expression of the culture of the South...
		...Not only did Alma turn Werfel away from poetry and toward the more profitable field of the novel, she was at least partly responsible for a major shift in his political outlook-from support for socialist revolution to a pro-Catholic, Austrian-conservative stance...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V90I1P60-1.htm (1919 words)

	Franz Werfel Biography / Biography of Franz Werfel Biography
		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.
		Werfel's posthumously published novel, Stern der Ungeborenen (1946), is a fantastic, futuristic vision of a world in which the intellect succumbs to the profusion and vitality of instinctive life.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-franz-werfel (724 words)

	Song of bernadette authors - Franz Werfel and John Martin
		Franz Werfel was born a German-speaking Jew in Prague in 1890, and became well known as a gifted playwright.
		It was there, in her native town, that Franz Werfel became acquainted with the strange and beautiful story of Bernadette Soubirous.
		One day in great distress[1] Franz Werfel vowed that, if he and his wife escaped from their desperate situation, he would put off all tasks and 'sing', as best he could, 'the song of Bernadette'.
	www.bernadette-of-lourdes.co.uk /song-of-bernadette-authors.htm (642 words)

	Amazon.com: The Song of Bernadette (Religious Miracle Fiction Series): Books: Franz Werfel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Franz Werfel's own story becomes intertwined with Bernadette's, we realize that we are presented with two stories about moments of grace; that of a humble peasant girl's priviledge of seeing the Mother of God face to face, and of a non-Christian's finding solace in the Visionary's native village, and ultimately escaping his persecutors.
		Werfel, in fulfillment of his vow to write about the young Seeress if his own mortal life was saved from the Nazis, has done Bernadette great justice, exposing more people to her life story in an entertaining and engaging way.
		Franz Werfels in-depth account of one of the strangest tales in modern history, the apparitions of a lady to the asthmatic illiterate 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, raised in poverty.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312034296?v=glance (2329 words)

	Denver Catholic Register - Opinion
		Franz Werfel, an outspoken anti-Nazi, had left Vienna for Paris when Austria was incorporated into the Third Reich.
		The Werfels stayed there for five weeks, and while they tried to arrange an illegal border crossing into Spain, Franz Werfel became fascinated by the story of Bernadette Soubirous, the apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes, and the miraculous cures at the spring there.
		For all its unsparing depiction of the poverty of the French Pyrenees, the pettiness of local officialdom, the skepticism and institutional-mindedness of local churchmen, "The Song of Bernadette" is shot through with a sense of the extraordinary that lies on the far side of the ordinary, revealing itself through the simplest things.
	www.archden.org /dcr/archive/20010228/2001022829op.htm (571 words)

	Franz Werfel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He attended the University of Prague and served in the Austrian army in World War I. Writing, however, was Werfel's major interest; his first play appeared in print in 1910.
		Werfel settled in Vienna until fear of Nazi Germany's expanding power forced him, as a Jew, to flee to France in 1938 and to the U.S. in 1940, where he spent the last years of his life.
		Among his plays are Juarez and Maximilian (1924), which was the basis of the American film Juarez (1939); and Jacobowsky und der Oberst (1944), which was adapted into both a successful theatrical comedy, Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), and a film, Me and the Colonel (1958).
	mousaler.com /musa-dagh/data/werfel.html (204 words)

	Franz Werfel - Armeniapedia.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Werfel died in 1945 in Los Angeles, and was buried there in Rosemont Cemetary until 1976.
		When Vartan Gregorian learned this, he organized and funded the tranfer of Werfel's remains to Vienna, where they are now in the Pantheon of Austrian writers, along with a monument to him by Anna Mahler.
		At the unveiling, Gregorian (a former altar boy) was present, and acted as a deacon while the Armenian Bishop of Vienna blessed Werfel's grave.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Franz_Werfel (119 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Franz Werfel
		The poet, playwright and novelist Franz Werfel became first active in early modernism, had a prominent standing among writers of German Expressionism and later wrote best-selling novels which established his international fame.
		Franz Viktor Werfel was born in Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), on 10 September 1890 as the first child of Albine and Rudolf Werfel, a prosperous glove factory owner.
		Werfel’s use of the actual spoken German language in this text radically differs from the stylized rhetoric in his plays from the early twenties, and he has now developed a keen eye for realistic description.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5468 (1867 words)

	Werfel and Alma Mahler
		While in Southern California, Werfel completed his novel The Song of Bernadette (1941; Das Lied von Bernadette) thereby fulfilling his vow made in 1940 in Lourdes for a safe escape.
		Werfel also wrote his final play, Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944; Jacobowsky und der Oberst), while in Southern California.
		ranz Werfel died in Los Angeles during the summer of 1945 and was buried in Rosendale Cemetery.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /werfel_and_alma_mahler.html (558 words)

	Penn Special Collections - Music/Mahler-Werfel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Following her divorce from the architect Walter Gropius, whom she had married in 1915, Alma married the Austrian writer and literary theorist Franz Werfel.
		Werfel often drew on musical subjects and collaborated with musicians in his work.
		Alma Mahler Werfel was one of many of Schönberg's friends and colleagues who campaigned for an increase in the royalty fees the composer received for performances of his works.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/music/alma.html (474 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Franz Werfel's The Song of Bernadette
		When the author Franz Werfel, an Austrian Jew, fled Europe after the collapse of France in June 1940, he and his wife ended up hiding for several weeks in the city of Lourdes.
		It was there that he became familiar with the story of Marie Bernard "Bernadette" Soubirous, the impoverished, asthmatic, fourteen year old girl whose visions of the Virgin Mary at the local trash heap eventually made her a saint.
		Werfel of course brought to the book his own dramatic story but never overreaches.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/997 (1665 words)

	Franz Werfel
		Franz Werfel recounting the story of his escape from Marseilles to Barcelona and Lisbon, where he boarded the SS Nea Hellas bound for the United States.
		Franz Werfel (1890-1945), Austrian poet, modernist playwright, and novelist, was born in Prague, the son of a Jewish merchant.
		Werfel's books were burned by the Nazis as those of a Jewish author who advocated pacifism, love for all mankind, and hostility to extreme nationalism and Nazism.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007049 (403 words)

	AllRefer.com - Franz Werfel (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Franz Werfel (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Franz Werfel[frAnts ver´ful] Pronunciation Key, 1890–1945, Austrian writer, b.
		He expressed his belief in the brotherhood of man in lyric verse, in expressionist and conventional plays, and in novels.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Werfel-F.html (263 words)

	A Myth of Terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Franz Werfel knew that he had been taken in by forgeries
		My dear departed friend, Franz Werfel, who wrote that book, The 40 days at Moussa Dagh, never was in that region to investigate what he wrote.
		Before his death, Werfel told me that he felt ashamed and contrite for having written the book and for the many falsehoods and fabrications the Armenians had foisted on him.
	www.ataa.org /ataa/ref/myth/werfel.html (659 words)

	Usanogh Discussion Board : "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" by Franz Werfel
		Franz Werfel has received many accolades within the Armenian community for writing this book and seeing as how it was based on true events atop Musa Dagh 89 years ago I thought that I should read it.
		I would like to mention that i read this book when i was 10 years old, and to this day i remember the names of the characters and the whole story in terms of how it unfolded, what happened and the rest of the details as they were presented in the book.
		Franz Werfel has inspired me as a non-Armenian doing so much for the community.
	www.usanogh.com /cgi-bin/bbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=000343 (4411 words)

	Franz Werfel
		Franz Werfel was born in Prague, Bohemia (now Czech), as the son of a wealthy glove merchant.
		Werfel's major novels dealt with music, history, and Catholic faith, although he never converted.
		Werfel lived in Austria until 1938, when the Anschluss, the Nazi occupation, forced him into exile.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /fwerfel.htm (1471 words)

	Books of the poet: Franz Werfel - book works writings work
		The truth of the matter is, is that words alone cannot describe Franz Werfel's "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh".
		It is too grand a story that should, rather, be read by everyone and experienced to the greatest extent possible in the human spirit.
		Werfel composes a beaufiful note which instills the reader's spirt with much more than words, it gives them hope, it gives them proof that perhaps there are happy and positive stories that stem from tragedies.
	www.poemhunter.com /franz-werfel/books/poet-38362 (829 words)

	Alibris: Franz Werfel
		The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their...
		Werfel, Czech-born poet, playwright, and novelist, whose central themes were religious faith, heroism, and human brotherhood.
		One of his short-stories, The Man Who Conquered Death begins: The flat consists of a living room, a kitchen, and a small bedroom on the fourth floor of a house in...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Franz_Werfel (307 words)

	Franz Werfel - playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Franz Werfel - adaptations translations by modern playwrights
		To search for published plays by Franz Werfel click on one of the bookstore links above.
		You will be shown all Plays in print by Franz Werfel.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsW/WerfelFranz.htm (140 words)

	Ida Nasatir Review: Star of the Unborn by Franz Werfel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Franz Werfel lived and died true to his facts: a physical and spiritual exile.
		In the course of an intricately woven plot, the reader is treated to skillful, and at times moving descriptions of an "astromental" world, visits to Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter; the proper does of sex interest, and a battle between higher civilization and "jungle" humanity.
		Thus, in spiritual exile, Werfel spent his last year on skillfully wrought mixture of melodrama, rather crude superstition, pseudo-scientific fantasy, and occasional flashes of insight and wisdom.
	www.jewishsightseeing.com /louis_rose_historical/honorees/nasatir_ida_articles/1947-06-26-review-star_of_the_unborn.htm (409 words)

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