Author: John M. Spalek
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3598441487
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive bibliography of all Werfel publications in German language and thus a complete history of the publication of Werfel's works. All works are arranged alphabetically by title, followed by all other editions grouped by publisher. Each bibliographical entry contains the edition's designation, all the information from the title sheet, a description of the volume, the location and detailed explanatory notes.
Franz Werfel: Bibliography of German Editions
Author: John M. Spalek
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3598441487
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive bibliography of all Werfel publications in German language and thus a complete history of the publication of Werfel's works. All works are arranged alphabetically by title, followed by all other editions grouped by publisher. Each bibliographical entry contains the edition's designation, all the information from the title sheet, a description of the volume, the location and detailed explanatory notes.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3598441487
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive bibliography of all Werfel publications in German language and thus a complete history of the publication of Werfel's works. All works are arranged alphabetically by title, followed by all other editions grouped by publisher. Each bibliographical entry contains the edition's designation, all the information from the title sheet, a description of the volume, the location and detailed explanatory notes.
Franz Werfel
Author: Peter Stephan Jungk
Publisher: Fromm International
ISBN: 9780880641302
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher: Fromm International
ISBN: 9780880641302
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Franz Werfel: A Life in Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood
Author: Peter Stephan Jungk
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Czech-born playwright, novelist and poet Franz Werfel (1890-1945) became internationally famous(and a special target of the Nazis) after he wrote The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, the first novel about the Armenian Genocide. He later published the Catholic classic The Song of Bernadette, written after a deeply religious experience in Lourdes, a stop on his escape route to the United States through occupied France. Born into a wealthy family of Prague Jews, Werfel was torn between his Jewish identity and his attraction to Catholicism, between high art and popular success. He was friends with Franz Kafka and Max Brod in his youth and later and part of a larger Central European intellectual circle that included Sigmund Freud and Martin Buber. He married Alma Schindler-Mahler-Gropius (widow of composer Gustav Mahler and ex-wife of Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius). The couple fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938 and became part of the German exile community of California. They lived in Beverly Hills where Werfel died, a successful Hollywood screenwriter. “This lovely book is more than a biography — a meditation on art, history and human life.” — John Simon, New York Times Book Review “An exemplary biography.” Edward Timms, The Times Literary Supplement “Jungk’s description of how he researched his subject is highly suspenseful and reads like a detective story.” — Der Spiegel “This exemplary biography recalls Werfel’s career and its vanished settings as part of the cultural history of the West. Mr. Jungk also provides a searing picture of Werfel’s wife, the famous Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel...” — The New Yorker “This biography, ostensibly the story of a life, is really a broad panorama of culture and history... It is Jungk’s genius to seduce us into following him into Werfel’s world, and to keep us there, completely enthralled.” — Die Welt
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Czech-born playwright, novelist and poet Franz Werfel (1890-1945) became internationally famous(and a special target of the Nazis) after he wrote The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, the first novel about the Armenian Genocide. He later published the Catholic classic The Song of Bernadette, written after a deeply religious experience in Lourdes, a stop on his escape route to the United States through occupied France. Born into a wealthy family of Prague Jews, Werfel was torn between his Jewish identity and his attraction to Catholicism, between high art and popular success. He was friends with Franz Kafka and Max Brod in his youth and later and part of a larger Central European intellectual circle that included Sigmund Freud and Martin Buber. He married Alma Schindler-Mahler-Gropius (widow of composer Gustav Mahler and ex-wife of Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius). The couple fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938 and became part of the German exile community of California. They lived in Beverly Hills where Werfel died, a successful Hollywood screenwriter. “This lovely book is more than a biography — a meditation on art, history and human life.” — John Simon, New York Times Book Review “An exemplary biography.” Edward Timms, The Times Literary Supplement “Jungk’s description of how he researched his subject is highly suspenseful and reads like a detective story.” — Der Spiegel “This exemplary biography recalls Werfel’s career and its vanished settings as part of the cultural history of the West. Mr. Jungk also provides a searing picture of Werfel’s wife, the famous Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel...” — The New Yorker “This biography, ostensibly the story of a life, is really a broad panorama of culture and history... It is Jungk’s genius to seduce us into following him into Werfel’s world, and to keep us there, completely enthralled.” — Die Welt
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
The Fortunes of German Writers in America
Author: Wolfgang Elfe
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872497863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872497863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Understanding Franz Werfel
Author: Hans Wagener
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872498839
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Describes the life & work of the Austrian poet & novelist who heralded the German Expressionist movement in 1911, wrote some of Europe's most widely read novels in the 1930s, & enjoyed popular success in the 1940s with the film adaptations of his best-selling novels.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872498839
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Describes the life & work of the Austrian poet & novelist who heralded the German Expressionist movement in 1911, wrote some of Europe's most widely read novels in the 1930s, & enjoyed popular success in the 1940s with the film adaptations of his best-selling novels.
Diaries, 1898-1902
Author: Alma Mahler-Werfel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801486647
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The manuscript of Alma Mahler's Diaries, a pile of old exercise books, lay unread and seemingly illegible in the library of an American university. In search of the truth about Alma and Alexander Zemlinsky, Antony Beaumont read them and found what he was looking for. But he found far more: the authentic saga of one of the century's most charismatic personalities. The Diaries depict in intimate detail the four years during which Alma grew from adolescence into womanhood. Opening with her first, heady affair with Gustav Klimt, they break off shortly before her marriage to Gustav Mahler. "To me," writes Beaumont, "reading The Diaries is like raising a curtain, behind which stands the Vienna of 1900 in all its majesty, and so close that one can almost reach out and touch it. The vitality of everyday life, eye-witness accounts of significant artistic events, unique insights into the behavioral patterns and linguistic conventions of homo austriacus all these serve to make the book unique."Having come to grips with Alma's handwriting, Beaumont and his coeditor for the German edition, Susanne Rode-Breymann, added meticulously researched commentaries and annotations. The German edition was published in the autumn of 1997."
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801486647
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The manuscript of Alma Mahler's Diaries, a pile of old exercise books, lay unread and seemingly illegible in the library of an American university. In search of the truth about Alma and Alexander Zemlinsky, Antony Beaumont read them and found what he was looking for. But he found far more: the authentic saga of one of the century's most charismatic personalities. The Diaries depict in intimate detail the four years during which Alma grew from adolescence into womanhood. Opening with her first, heady affair with Gustav Klimt, they break off shortly before her marriage to Gustav Mahler. "To me," writes Beaumont, "reading The Diaries is like raising a curtain, behind which stands the Vienna of 1900 in all its majesty, and so close that one can almost reach out and touch it. The vitality of everyday life, eye-witness accounts of significant artistic events, unique insights into the behavioral patterns and linguistic conventions of homo austriacus all these serve to make the book unique."Having come to grips with Alma's handwriting, Beaumont and his coeditor for the German edition, Susanne Rode-Breymann, added meticulously researched commentaries and annotations. The German edition was published in the autumn of 1997."
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century
Author: Sorrel Kerbel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.
Introduction to German Poetry
Author: Gustave Mathieu
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486121798
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Over 40 poems by Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Hölderlin, Brecht, and other masters. Full German text plus literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical and critical commentary on each poet. 34 portraits. Introduction.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486121798
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Over 40 poems by Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Hölderlin, Brecht, and other masters. Full German text plus literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical and critical commentary on each poet. 34 portraits. Introduction.
Contemporary Authors
Author: Julie Mellors
Publisher: Contemporary Authors
ISBN: 9780787678654
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.
Publisher: Contemporary Authors
ISBN: 9780787678654
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.