Correspondence with Alma Mahler, Franz Werfel and Adolf Klarmann, 1907-1951.

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Correspondence with Alma Mahler, Franz Werfel and Adolf Klarmann, 1907-1951.

Included with the correspondence are typescripts of excerpts from letters that Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote to Willy Haas between 1912 and 1928, in which Franz Werfel is mentioned; and a typescript of 1 letter from Hofmannsthal to Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, in which he describes his impressions of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel as a couple.

20 items (35 leaves).

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Haas, Herta 1908-2007

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Hofmannsthal, Hugo ˜vonœ 1874-1929

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal was a German author, known as perhaps the most important Austrian writer of his era. Born in Vienna to prosperous Jewish parents, he was educated by private tutors and studied law and philology at the University of Vienna. He showed a precocious gift for poetry, and became equally prolific writing drama, fiction, and essays. He was influenced by the Symbolist tradition, and his work was self-consciously aesthetic, but his writing was always infused with his concern for harm...

Haas, Willy, 1891-1973.

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Born and raised in Prague, Willy Haas was a film critic and screenplay writer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and was co-founder with Ernst Rowohlt of the periodical Die literarische Welt. Of Jewish descent, he was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and returned to Prague, where he mostly worked as a film critic and editor. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he fled to Italy and then emigrated to India, where he spent the remainder of the war years. Among other things, he w...

Thurn und Taxis, Marie, Princess, 1855-1934

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Hofmannsthal, Gertrud.

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