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
all 13
Movies 13
Writer 11
Music / Book
The Eternal Road (1999)
Movie
Theatre Play
Jacobowski a plukovník (1990)
Movie
Writer
Juarez (1939)
Movie
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Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1890-09-10
Deathday
1945-08-26 (54 years old)
Relationships
Alma Mahler (1929-01-01 - 1945-08-26)
Father
Rudolf Werfel
Mother
Albine Kussi
Siblings
Hanna Fuchs-Robettin, Marianne Rieser
Citizenships
First Republic of Austria, Republic of German-Austria, Austria-Hungary, United States of America, Federal State of Austria
Awards
Franz-Grillparzer-Preis
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