Correspondence with Franz Werfel, 1941-1942.

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Correspondence with Franz Werfel, 1941-1942.

Concerns the South and Central American rights for works by Werfel, including the novel Die Geschwister von Neapel.

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Editorial Autorjus.

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Editorial Autorjus was based in Buenos Aires; Erdos was the U.S. representative for the firm, with an office in New York. Joseph was employed as Werfel's secretary, beginning in 1941. From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werfel, 1941-1942. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863191 ...

Erdos, Paul L.

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Joseph, Albrecht, 1901-1991

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Albrecht Joseph was born in Germany, where he was a theater director and screenplay writer during the years of the Weimar Republic; after emigrating to the U.S. during the Nazi period, he served as Franz Werfel's secretary from 1941 until late 1944 or early 1945, when he took a job as a filmcutter. Joseph was also a maker of short films, and the author of memoirs and a novel. In 1970 Joseph married Anna Mahler (he was her fifth and last husband). Isolde Klarmann, the widow of Adolf Klarmann, lat...