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Franz Werfel
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Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet (1890-1945)
OverviewAI-generated
Franz Werfel (1890–1945) was a writer, poet, playwright, and screenwriter who worked in Prague, Hamburg, Leipzig, and Vienna. Born in Prague, he held citizenship in Austria–Hungary and the United States. A member of the Jewish ethnic group, Werfel participated in World War I and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His notable works include *The Forty Days of Musa Dagh* and *The Song of Bernadette*. He was married to Alma Mahler.
Werfel died of a myocardial infarction in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, in 1945. He is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery. His literary output included pieces such as *Verdi, Simone Boccanegra* and *Begegnungen mit Rilke*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 10 September 1890
- Died
- 26 August 1945
- Works
- 253
Top works
- Verdi
- Simone Boccanegra
- Begegnungen mit Rilke
- Deutsche Erzähler aus der Tschechoslowakei
- Der Gerichtstag in fünf Büchern
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 76
- Total plays
- 1,161
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 54,672x
- Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 31,402x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,994x
- World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated
· 2006 · cited 9,897x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.”
- “Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.”
- “Der sicherste Reichtum ist die Armut an Bedürfnissen.”
- “Happiness is … the grace of being permitted to unfold … all the spiritual powers planted within us.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
14 objects attributed to Franz Werfel, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Letter from Joseph Chapiro, Adrienne Chapiro, Franz Werfel, Hedwig Fischer, Samuel Fischer, Brigitte Bermann Fischer, Gottfried Bermann Fischer, Ernst Deutsch, Carola Neher and Unknown to Gerhart Hauptmann.
Letter from Hedwig Fischer, Hildegard Fischer, Anna Mahler, Alma Zsolnay and Franz Werfel to Margarete Hauptmann and Gerhart Hauptmann
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Encyclopedic overview
Franz Viktor Werfel ( German: [fʁant͡s ˈvɛʁfl̩] ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was a Czech 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 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
Early life
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