Franz Werfel

The film was based upon the novel by Franz Werfel, one of the greatest Catholic novels written by a non-Catholic.

The Song of Bernadette (1943) elena maria vidal 2009

She married three famous men: Gustav Mahler; Walter Gropius, architect and founder of the Bauhaus; and Franz Werfel, poet, playwright, and novelist.

When You Don't Believe 2009

Then, there is the book by Franz Werfel and the World War II climate under which that book was written and published.

The Song of Bernadette (1943) Jacqueline T Lynch 2009

Then, there is the book by Franz Werfel and the World War II climate under which that book was written and published.

Archive 2009-04-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009

They ruminate on Franz Werfel, a Jew escaping the Nazis who on his escape route discovered the story of Lourdes and wrote a book on Bernadette, who had been canonized as a saint only fairly recently, in 1933.

Archive 2009-04-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009

In Paris she established her third salon, where her guests included the conductor Bruno Walter (1876 – 1962) and Alma and Franz Werfel.

Berta Zuckerkandl. 2009

During the two years she spent there, she became acquainted with the writings of Thomas Mann and Franz Werfel and the poetry and plays of Bertolt Brecht, and discovered the truth about the atrocities of the Nazi regime.

Orna Porat. 2009

She also published more short fiction, mostly in French but occasionally also in English, and translated a number of important German works (by Emil Ludwig, Fritz von Unruh, Franz Werfel and Stefan Zweig) into French.

Claire Goll. 2009

Many other Jewish intellectuals who were part of the Jewish Renaissance, such as Jacob Wasserman, Franz Werfel and Kurt Tucholsky, dealt with what they perceived as their “failure” as Germans during World War I by portraying the assimilated German Jew as highly dislikable, but were unable to present an appealing alternative.

Bertha Badt-Strauss. 2009

They ruminate on Franz Werfel, a Jew escaping the Nazis who on his escape route discovered the story of Lourdes and wrote a book on Bernadette, who had been canonized as a saint only fairly recently, in 1933.

The Song of Bernadette (1943) Jacqueline T Lynch 2009