Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943-ca. 1947.

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Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943-ca. 1947.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155863993

2 items from Monter to Franz Werfel concern negotiations pertaining to dramatizations of Werfel's novel Embezzled Heaven and of his play Jacobowsky and the Colonel. 3 items comprise a correspondence between Monter and Albine Werfel concerning a dispute over the interpretation of Franz Werfel's will, in which Alma Mahler was named as sole heir, to the exclusion of Werfel's mother and sisters.

6 items (12 leaves).

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Monter, Rudolph

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Monter acted as an agent for Franz Werfel and was possibly an attorney; his office was in Hollywood. Albine Werfel was Franz's mother and the addressee of 2 letters from Monter. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943-ca. 1947. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863993 ...

Werfel, Albine, 1870-1964.

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Albine Werfel (née Kussi) was Franz Werfel's mother. Rudolf Werfel was Albine's husband and Franz's father; Rudolf and Albine married in 1889 and lived in Prague. In 1938 and 1939 Albine and Rudolf Werfel were visiting in Switzerland; right before the outbreak of war in 1939, they moved to France, where they resided in Vichy, then Bergerac and finally Marseille, where Rudolf Werfel died, in 1941, while they were awaiting passage to the U.S. Albine Werfel subsequently made the trip to the U.S. a...