Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1943.

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Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155863415

Concerns the revision, translation, and adaptation of Werfel's play Jacobowsky und der Oberst (Jacobowsky and the Colonel) for Broadway.

3 items (3 leaves).

eng,

ger,

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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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...

Harris, Jed

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Theatrical producer. Name changed from Jacob Hirsch Horowitz. Born 1900; died 1979. From the description of Papers of Jed Harris, 1928-1950 (bulk 1939-1943). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131853 Harris was a theatrical producer who worked with Werfel on the Broadway adaptation of Jacobowsky und der Oberst in the summer of 1943, but their collaboration did not come to fruition. The play was ultimately produced by the Theatre Guild and opened in March 1944. From...