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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...
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    with Franz Werfel. Following her separation from Gropius, Alma and Werfel eventually married. In 1938, after Nazi Germany annexed Austria, Werfel and Alma...
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    Hasidic Warsaw family, and the writers Ludwig Winder, Oskar Baum and Franz Werfel. At the end of his first year of studies, Kafka met Max Brod, a fellow...
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  • Gropius Werfel, née Schindler), wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel Daniel Werfel (born 1971), American administrator Franz Werfel (1890–1945)...
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  • and diarist Alma Mahler and the stepdaughter of the novelist and poet Franz Werfel. She is a Randfigur (peripheral person) whose importance lies in her...
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    The Franz Werfel Human Rights Award (German: Franz-Werfel-Menschenrechtspreis) is a human rights award of the German Federation of Expellees' Centre Against...
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  • The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (category Novels by Franz Werfel)
    vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh) is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World...
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  • The Song of Bernadette (novel) (category Novels by Franz Werfel)
    the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France. The novel was written by Franz Werfel and translated into English by Lewis Lewisohn in 1942. It was extremely...
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    Prize (1995), the International Dublin Literary Award (1998) and the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award (2009). On 8 October 2009, the Swedish Academy announced...
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    Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis...
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    biographical drama film based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Franz Werfel. It stars Jennifer Jones in the title role, which portrays the story...
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    fictionalized treatment in Franz Werfel's 1941 novel The Song of Bernadette In 1943, director Henry King adapted Werfel's novel into a film of the same...
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    2006. Together with Peter Glotz, she was the primary initiator of the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award, and serves as a jury member together with Otto von...
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    Armenian resistance to the Armenian genocide, an event that inspired Franz Werfel to write the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. The deportation orders...
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  • Crown by Bertita Harding and the 1925 play Juarez and Maximilian by Franz Werfel. The film focuses on the ongoing conflict between Maximilian I (Brian...
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  • following the archaic thinking of the bloody vendetta." To donate a Franz Werfel Human Rights Award to people who "sharpen the sense of responsibility...
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  • is the protagonist of the 1933 novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel and the 1982 film adaptation, where he was portrayed by Kabir Bedi. Gabriel...
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    Mahler's death, of architect Walter Gropius and subsequently of writer Franz Werfel). On 20 August 2005, Wynter married Details magazine editor-in-chief...
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    Maximilian on stage, in film and television. In theater, the play by Franz Werfel Juarez and Maximilian focuses on the two historical figures; it was performed...
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    conferred by the Bad Harzburg Civic Foundation[citation needed] 2023 – Franz Werfel Award for Human Rights, granted by the Center against Expulsions in Bonn...
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    pursue his music studies. Around 1920, Orff was drawn to the poetry of Franz Werfel, which became the basis for numerous Lieder and choral compositions....
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    Bohemia where he was once the Crown Prince. He was a jury member of the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award. He also held Francisco Franco in a high regard and...
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    he and his wife Nelly Kröger, his nephew Golo Mann, Alma Mahler-Werfel and Franz Werfel hiked for six hours across the border at Port Bou. After arriving...
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    (1843–1921), politician, served in House of Representatives from Texas Franz Werfel (1890–1945), Austrian writer (whose body was transferred in 1975 to the...
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  • Hanna Fuchs-Robettin (1896–1964) (née Werfel) was the sister of Franz Werfel, wife of Herbert Fuchs-Robettin, and mistress of Alban Berg. Berg secretly...
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    Nedeljko Čabrinović (category Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassination conspirators)
    deteriorated. Towards the end of 1915, he was visited by Austrian writer Franz Werfel, who wrote about the visit in his diary. Čabrinović died on 23 January...
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  • Gods Franz Unger (1800–1870), Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist Franz Vranitzky (born 1937), Austrian politician Franz Werfel, (1890–1945)...
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    circle of artists and intellectuals who included Lene Schneider-Kainer, Franz Werfel, Herwarth Walden, and Else Lasker-Schüler. In 1910 he met Edward Clark...
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  • American comedy film based on the play Jacobowsky und der Oberst by Franz Werfel. It was directed by Peter Glenville and stars Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens...
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    Stencl, Carl Sternheim, Bertha von Suttner, Ernst Toller, Frank Wedekind, Franz Werfel, Grete Weiskopf, and Arnold Zweig. Not only German-speaking authors were...
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