Franz Werfel FamilyCollection undated, 1925-1947 bulk 1940-1944

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Franz Werfel FamilyCollection undated, 1925-1947 bulk 1940-1944

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This collectionconsists primarily of Werfel family correspondence from 1940-1947. Letters andtelegraphs mainly document Franz and Alma Werfel's escape from France to the UnitedStates, and the efforts of Franz's sisters Marianne Rieser and Hanna Fuchs-Robettinto help their parents escape Europe by way of France and Portugal. Additionalcorrespondence concerns Ferdinand Rieser's work at the Zurich Schaupielhaus, and thecollection also contains a typescript of the Marianne Rieser play "Your ProblemPlease."

0.5 linear feet

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Leo Baeck Institute.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6346725

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Fry, Varian, 1907-1967

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Varian Fry, an American journalist, was sent to France in 1940 as an emissary of the Emergency Rescue Committee, a private American relief organization formed in 1940 in New York to aid refugees in Vichy, France who stood in danger of Nazi persecution; Fry expedited the emigration of many prominent intellectuals. He made the acquaintance of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel in Marseilles in August 1940 and helped them make their way safely across the border into Spain and then to Portugal,...

Mahler, Alma

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Alma Mahler, daughter of painter Emil Jakob Schindler and singer Anna Bergen, grew up in Vienna, studied music, and married composer Gustav Mahler. After his death in 1911, she married architect Walter Gropius in 1915. She and writer Franz Werfel fled Nazi Germany in 1937 for France and settled in California in 1940. From the description of Alma Mahler's birthday book, 1949. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 48912134 Born Alma Maria Schindler, Al...

Hedwig Lipski

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Stephen Wise

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Rieser, Ferdinand 1886-1947

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Rieser, Marianne

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Author Franz Werfel (1890-1945) was born in Prague to the glove merchant Rudolph Werfel. He had two sisters, playwright Marianne Amalie Rieser (1899-1965) and Hanna Fuchs-Robettin (1896-1964). Werfel was educated in Prague, and from 1915 to 1917 he served in the Austrian army on the Russian front. After the war he settled in Vienna and worked as a full-time writer. His novels were especially popular in England and in the United States. In Vienna he met Alma Mahler-Gropius (1879-1964), the widow ...

Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945

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Franz Werfel was born Sept. 10, 1890 in Prague, Bohemia; one of the founders of the expressionist movement in German literature, Werfel began writing poetry when still a boy and published his first play when 20; published first book of verse in 1911; plays Goat song (1922) and Juarez and Maximilian (1925) were successfully produced in Europe and NY; published novel, Verdi, in 1924; married Alma Mahler, composer Gustav Mahler's widow, in 1929; in 1940 fled Nazis to US; wrote one of his most popul...