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1. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2020/03/09The Haunted California Idyll of German Writers in Exile

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   Mar 2, 2020 · Alma Mahler-Werfel, the widow of Gustav Mahler, lived with her third husband, the best-selling Austrian writer Franz Werfel, on North Bedford Drive, next door to the conductor Bruno Walter.

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Franz_WerfelFranz Werfel - Wikipedia

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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.

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4. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1990/03/11-bkTragedy and Triumph of a Simple Soul : FRANZ WERFEL: A Life ...

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   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...

5. www.vatmh.org › en › historyHistory of the Villa - VATMH (en)

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   The Feuchtwangers regularly hosted readings, concerts, and receptions. Guests included Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Bruno Frank, Charlie Chaplin, Franz Werfel and his wife Alma Mahler-Werfel, Hanns Eisler, Ernst Toch, and many more artists and intellectuals.

6. www.nytimes.com › 1990/04/29 › booksLOVES AND TORMENTS OF A MAN-CHILD - The New York Times

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   Apr 29, 1990 · Franz Werfel, I think, is best characterized by a line from one of his poems: ''Tenderness is wisdom, and mildness is sense''; Alma, by a sentence in Mrs. Thomas Mann's memoir describing her as...

7. www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › franz-werfelFranz Werfel | Poetry Foundation

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   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.

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   Who was 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.

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   How did Werfel become a philanthropist?

   • Although Werfel’s father was attempting to prepare the lad for a career in the family business, Werfel was busy writing poems and, with the help of Brod and Willy Haas, getting them published as Der Weltfruend (The Worldfriend; The Philanthropist) in 1911.

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   Where was Franz Werfel buried?

   • Franz Werfel died of heart failure in Los Angeles in 1945 and was interred there in the Rosedale Cemetery. However, his body was returned in 1975 to Vienna for reburial in the Zentralfriedhof. 2006 Posthumous Award of Armenian Honorary Citizenship; the plaque was presented to the Austrian National Library.

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   When did Werfel start writing?

   • Werfel began writing at an early age and, by 1911, had published his first book of poems, Der Weltfreund, which can be translated as "the friend to the world" as well as philanthropist, humanitarian, and the like.

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9. encyclopedia.ushmm.org › content › enVarian Fry | Holocaust Encyclopedia

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   Almost immediately after arriving in Marseille, Fry met German Jewish writer Franz Werfel, who, with his wife Alma Mahler Werfel, needed to escape France to avoid arrest. In early September 1940, Fry purchased train tickets for himself, the Werfels, and family members of novelist Thomas Mann (who had already made it to the United States).