23 research outputs found
Lieder (1910)
No full textscore (19 p. on [18] l.) 28 cm. 1. Die stille Stadt (Rich. Dehmel).--2. In meines Vaters Garten (Hartleben).--3. Laue Sommernacht (Falke.).--4. Bei Dir ist es traut (Rilke).--5. Ich wandle unter Blumen (Heine)
Alma Mahler-Werfel Collection. 1949-1964
No full textThe collection holds two letters by Alma Mahler-Werfel to Friderike Zweig, Stefan Zweig's wife (undated and 1949), as well as one letter from Alma to a Mr. Bloch, discussing Franz Werfel's Jewish identity (1958). Also included are a newspaper article and her obituary.Alma Schindler was born in Vienna in 1879 as the daughter of the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler. She studied with the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky and in 1902 married Gustav Mahler. In 1915, she married the architect Walter Gropius; the couple separated in 1918. In 1929, she married Franz Werfel. She died in New York in 1964.German and some English.digitize
Franz Werfel Collection 1918-1929
No full textThe collection contains a letter from Franz Werfel to poet Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss regarding her poetry; letter from Werfel to literary critic Eduard Korrodi regarding the
poetry of Bünninger; brief essay by Werfel about stage actor Alexander Moissi; and telegram to theater director Max Reinhardt from Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler with condolences on the
death of his brother. Also included is a photocopy of a brief personal questionnaire completed by Werfel for the Akademi der Künste in Berlin.Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890. He was educated in Prague. While still a gymnasium student, he met Franz Kafka and Max Brod. After studies in Leipzig and
Hamburg, he worked at a publishing company from 1911 to 1914. With Walter Hasenclever and Kurt Pinthus, he edited the expressionist series Der jüngste Tag. Werfel's first
verse collection, Der Weltfreund, was published in 1911. On the eve of World War I, he was active in a pacifist society that he organized together with Martin Buber, Gustav Landauer,
and Max Scheler. From 1915 to 1917, Werfel served in the Austrian army on the Russian front. He was transferred to the war press bureau in Vienna, but his outspoken pacifism led to a
charge of treason. Werfel's poems about the war appeared in 1919 under the title Der Gerichtstag. In Vienna, he met Alma Mahler, the widow of the composer Gustav Mahler. At
the time, she was married to the architect Walter Gropius. She divorced Gropius and went to live with Werfel; they were married in 1929. After the war, Werfel worked as a full-time
writer, and turned more and more to drama and the novel. His plays were especially popular in England and the United States. Most of his plays were produced by Max Reinhardt. Werfel
lived in Austria until 1938, when the Anschluss forced him into exile. In Paris, Werfel suffered his first heart attack. After traveling from France to Spain, Werfel settled in the
United States in 1940. He died in Beverly Hills, California, on August 26, 1945, in the middle of his work, correcting galley proof of his last book of verse.The original German-language inventory is available in the folderAutographs removed from Autograph Collection to K locationProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Brief von Hedwig Fischer, Hildegard Fischer, Anna Mahler, Alma Zsolnay und Franz Werfel an Margarete Hauptmann und Gerhart Hauptmann
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