Correspondence with Franz Werfel and Adolf Klarmann, 1916-1967.

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Correspondence with Franz Werfel and Adolf Klarmann, 1916-1967.

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The letters from Werfel to Spirk date from 1916 to 1918, during the period when he was carrying on a romantic relationship with her; no letters from Spirk to Werfel are included. The remaining correspondence is between Spirk and Adolf Klarmann and dates from 1948 to 1967. The latter corresponcence indicates that Klarmann borrowed from Spirk letters of Werfel in her possession, in order to make transcripts (some handwritten and some typed) and photocopies; these letters were subsequently deposited in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach. The transcripts and photocopies here represent only a portion of the Werfel letters which Spirk possessed. The letters from Kallir to Klarmann mainly concern Kallir's perception of Spirk's wishes pertaining to the disposition and possible publication of the Werfel letters (a publication was apparently being considered at the time). Also included is the announcement sent out by Spirk's family upon her death.

91 items (149 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Spirk, Gertrud, 1885-1967.

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Gertrud Spirk was an acquaintance of Franz Werfel from Prague with whom he developed and carried on a romantic relationship from the end of 1915 until mid 1918, while he was serving in the military during the First World War. It appears that Spirk never married. From around 1950 until near the end of her life, she was living in the U.S., often at the home of Rudolf F. Kallir (1895-1987), an émigré from Austria whose wife was Spirk's niece. (Rudolf Kallir was the brother of the art dealer Otto ...

Kallir, Rudolf F.

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