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Franz Werfel
Franz Viktor Werfel 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, 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 Soubirou…
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Born 10 September 1890 · Died 26 August 1945 · Q78514
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2025· 2 entries
welt.de: Vitali Klitschko erhält Franz-Werfel-Menschenrechtspreis
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2018· 1 entry
ORF: Franz Werfel: Literatur als Spiegel der Geschichte
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2017· 1 entry
ots: 25 Jahre Franz Werfel-Stipendienprogramm
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2015· 2 entries
ORF: Franz Werfel
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Released album “Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh”.
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1975· 1 entry
To Vienna for reburial in the Zentralfriedhof
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1945· 3 entries
Died 1945-08-26.
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“Happiness is … the grace of being permitted to unfold … all the spiritual powers planted within us.”
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And was interred there in the Rosedale Cemetery
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1938· 1 entry
And went to France, where they lived in a fishing village near Marseille
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1930· 1 entry
To British-ruled Palestine, and his encounter with the Armenian refugee community in Jerusalem, inspired his novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh which drew world attention to the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman government
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1926· 2 entries
Awarded Franz-Grillparzer-Preis (1926).
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Werfel was awarded the Grillparzer Prize by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and in Berlin, Max Reinhardt performed his play Juarez and Maximilian (depicting the struggle in 1860's Mexico between the Republican leader
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1912· 1 entry
Werfel moved to Leipzig, where he became an editor for Kurt Wolff's new publishing firm, where Werfel championed and edited Georg Trakl's first book of poetry
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-09-10.
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