Biography
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. 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.
Filmography
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Movies 13
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Music / Book
The Eternal Road (1999)
Movie
Theatre Play
Jacobowski a plukovník (1990)
Movie
Writer
Juarez (1939)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1890-09-10
Deathday1945-08-26 (54 years old)
RelationshipsAlma Mahler (1929-01-01 - 1945-08-26)
FatherRudolf Werfel
MotherAlbine Kussi
SiblingsHanna Fuchs-Robettin, Marianne Rieser
CitizenshipsFirst Republic of Austria, Republic of German-Austria, Austria-Hungary, United States of America, Federal State of Austria
AwardsFranz-Grillparzer-Preis
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