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LisaAndrews55: music (Gustav Mahler); literature (Franz Werfel); art (Oskar Kokoschka); and architecture (Walter Gropius). It is possible that no pop-cultural muse will ever equal such a record, but if anyone came close in the modern era, it was the English beauty Pattie Boyd, whose
3abersabeel1970: “Which road, which road did you take
That brought you here at last?
No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream."
Expressionist poet and novelist Franz Werfel was born 1890
neurosocialself: No road,
no road did I take.
I leapt, I leapt
from dream to dream.
Franz Werfel
TroveAirRaidBot: Another Australian newspaper article about air raids! 1 Jul 1945, 'COMEDY OF A TRAGEDY. Franz Werfel’s Play, Jacobowsky and the Colonel.':
RebbeZev: Which road, which road did you take
That brought you here at last?
No road, no road did I take.
I leapt, I leapt from dream to dream.
–Franz Werfel
alemogolloart: The glorious Jennifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette, a 1943 drama based on the Franz Werfel novel. A day like today, March 2, 1944, Miss Jones received her Oscar on her 25th birthday at the 16th Academy Awards. What a piece of trivia, uh! Are you a fan?
LucBernard: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was written by Jewish author Franz Werfel.
It inspired Jews to fight back and was popular in the Białystok Ghetto.
Now today very little people know the many connections of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust.
BelliBell: Found a first edition (1946) of "Star of the Unborn" by Franz Werfel.
sci-fi, time travel, utopia
gjm2700: The Song of Bernadette was a novel written by Czech-born Franz Werfel, an Austrian Jew who found shelter and welcome in Lourdes when he fled the Nazis.
emmanuel_rch: Hay que leer a Franz Werfel
anafernandezs11: Her second was Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus movement; her third, the writer Franz Werfel
Her lovers included Oskar Kokoschka, a daring artist who commissioned a fetishistic, life-size doll of Alma after she ditched him.
StoliarSteve: Another publicity shot of Groucho, Harpo and Chico on their pre-filming "A Night At The Opera" live tour in 1935. I magnified the photo and determined that Groucho is holding a copy of "Forty Days of Musa Dagh" by Franz Werfel, about the Armenian Genocide. Typical light reading.
JunkDealer7: Franz Werfel — 'For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.'
Young_Andretti: "For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe,none will suffice" - Franz Werfel.
Muirnara: I'm watching "The Song of Bernadette" based on the novel by Franz Werfel. A novel that was based on the life and passion of St. Bernadette, a seeress and mystic whose life has always fascinated me. This movie is SO GOOD, I might make a reaction thread? Anyone want my thoughts?
neglectedbooks: She also studied with the theater director Max Reinhardt and became friends with Kurt Weill and Franz Werfel, appearing in their Biblical spectacle The Eternal Road in 1937.
ViraArmstrong: The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 American biographical drama film based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Franz Werfel.
mag400: Check out The Song of Bernadette By Franz Werfel Vintage Book 1945
nimrit_team: STAY RESILIENT NIMRIT
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. - Franz Werfel..
TroveAirRaidBot: Another Australian newspaper article about air raids! 1 Jul 1945, 'COMEDY OF A TRAGEDY. Franz Werfel’s Play, Jacobowsky and the Colonel.':
JamesMartinSJ: Happy Feast of St. Bernadette Soubirous, one of the greatest of saints and someone to whom I have a great devotion. If you would like to learn more about her extraordinary life, read "The Song of Bernadette" by Franz Werfel or "Bernadette of Lourdes" by Fr. René Laurentin...
DannerFoundati1: And I misquoted him on purpose and am off reading a few pages of the “Song of Bernadette” by Franz Werfel just to see the breakdown on who corrects me on what me “dad really said” not knowing that Dad always butchered popular quotes.
Franz_K_Diaries: 2 December. Afternoon at Werfels with Max and Pick. Read In the Penal Colony aloud; am not entirely dissatisfied, except for its glaring and ineradicable faults. Werfel read some poems and two acts of Esther, Kaiserin von Persien. The acts carry
Franz_K_Diaries: Liebe: Speckbacher is cutting a figure, by which they meant an officer leaning against the side of a box. The days conclusion, even before meeting Werfel: Go on working regardless of everything; a pity I cant work today, for I am tired and have
NCRegister: ‘For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.’
—Franz Werfel, ‘The Song of Bernadette’
historyarmenia: - relieving the distress of the survivors during and after the genocide, among them Johannes Lepsius, Franz Werfel, Armin T. Wegner, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Fridtjof Nansen, Pope Benedict XV, Jakob Künzler, Bodil Biørn. An alley of trees planted to commemorate the genocide victims.
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Franz_K_Diaries: 19 November. Days passed in futility, powers wasting away in waiting, and, in spite of all this idleness, throbbing, gnawing pains in my head. Letter from Werfel. Reply. At Mrs M-T.s, my defencelessness against everything. My malicious remarks
vkmagus: "Power and the dullest insensitivity have gone together ever since there has been a world" - The forty days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
fraveris: "Nevertheless! Sun and furious woods, the pond in ice. Mills dance in the sky, flocks of birds pose in infinity. "
(Franz Werfel)
BetoReitenbach: “For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.”
― Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette
PaulW1lk1nson: ”To those who believe no explanation is necessary,
to those who refuse to believe no explanation suffices.”
-Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel
dean_frey: Alexander von Zemlinsky by Emil Orlik
"He comes from the innermost depths of music"
- Franz Werfel
Lyric Symphony, 1922-23:
milandroid: Should be eastern and central but anyways, the case of Armenia is mind boggling. Like what, they got a statue for Franz Werfel but won’t accept him as a fellow citizen?
ablourdes_org: And… “The Song of Bernadette” was written by a Jewish refugee Franz Werfel in gratitude for being looked after in Lourdes in the 2nd World War. We are all one!
jsief: “Everything exists, when you love. Your friend becomes Socrates, if you let him.”
—Franz Werfel, tr. Ott, via Albert Hofmann
Tina69911364: We belong far less to where we’ve come from than where we want to go.
Franz Werfel (1890-1945)
Franz_K_Diaries: you dont get anywhere, in wartime you bleed to death. Dreamed of Werfel: He was saying that in Lower Austria, where he is stopping at present, by accident he lightly jostled against a man on the street, whereupon the latter swore at him shamefully
historyarmenia: It inspired Franz Werfel to write his novel "The 40 Days of Musa Dagh", based on detailed research of the sources. Werfel told reporters: "The struggle of 5,000 people on Musa Dagh had so fascinated me that I wished to aid the Armenian people by bringing the story to the world".
LGhazaryan: 40 Days of Musa Dagh (Musaler) by Franz Werfel
CoreyMesler: Happy Franz Werfel's birthday. He said, "The safest wealth is the poverty of needs."
IleRoku: Also today celebrating birthday:
* Robert Wise (American film director, film producer and film editor, born 1914)
* Franz Werfel (Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet (1890-1945), born 1890)
Book_Addict: Happy birthday Austrian-born writer/playwright/poet Franz Werfel (September 10,1890) author of the 1941 novel "The Song of Bernadette" et al
HalfAsHistory: Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright
1890 · 132 years ago
HalfAsHistory: Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright
1890 · 132 years ago
HalfAsHistory: Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright
1890 · 132 years ago
war_poets: 10 September 1890 Franz Werfel is born in Prague
oh_look_a_book: "Afternoon at Werfel's with Max and Pick. Read In the Penal Colony aloud; am not entirely dissatisfied, except for is glaring and ineradicable faults."
Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1914
LucBernard: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is a 1933 novel by the Austrian-Jewish author Franz Werfel. Based on the events at Musa Dagh in 1915 during the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the book played a role in organizing the Jewish resistance under Nazi rule.
draxtor: if you want to read something transformative this weekend (or start at least coz dense 700 pages!!) & go on a journey 100 thousand years into the future = Franz Werfel "Star of the Unborn" (1945)
Franz_K_Diaries: 30 August. All this time did nothing. The visit of my uncle from Spain. Last Saturday in the Arco Werfel recited his Lebenslieder and Opfer. A monster! But I looked him in the eye and held it all evening. It will be hard to rouse me, and yet I am restless
Franz_K_Diaries: Miroir, about love in the present and the way love has changed since the days of our grandparents. An actress answered: Never did they love as well as today. How shaken and exalted I was after hearing Werfel! How I behaved afterwards at L.s party
InadeBree: ‘Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals,
and very much later one of politics.’
Franz Werfel, Die Vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh, 1933
Jack Delano, Lowell Massachusetts, 1941
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--Franz Werfel
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dumag18: “the era of safety is over”——Franz Werfel
“As liberal Jews have had increasing cause to observe, one of the penalties for becoming another state was to become a state like any other.”——Cultural Amnesia Author Clive James
GermanAtPompey: Book review: 'Manon's World' by James Reidel - a hauntology of a daughter in the triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
Chalcidoidea_GS: If “thirst is the surest proof of the existence of water” (Franz Werfel), how to love with having no desire of love ?
Zoltanuniversal: Alma Schindler was considered as the most charming young lady in Vienna for reasons that cannot be understood from her photos. She turned down composer Zemlinsky, married to Mahler, married to Bauhaus founder architect Walter Gropius and married to novelist/poet Franz Werfel.
ShitDJTsays: The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.
-Franz Werfel
ericesheng: Steinbeck, /East of Eden/
Franz Werfel, /Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh/
John Wyndham, /The Midwich cuckoos/
LeGuin, /The left hand of darkness/
Plays
Shakespeare, /Othello/ and /King Lear/
Büchner, /Dantons Tod/
Films
Roberto Rosselini, /Socrates/
Miloš Forman, /Goya’s ghosts/
BMelathopolous: The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Jennifer Jones
Vincent Price
Lee J. Cobb
Henry King (Director)
Based on a novel by Franz Werfel
ChemistryKit: Oskar caught a bullet in 1915, and became - according to his records - mentally unstable, but managed to get a career going as an artist. Alma, meanwhile, found a new squeeze; another injured soldier called Franz Werfel. They began to live together... and Oskar wasn't happy.
YRubovitch: [1/2]
"The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, by Franz Werfel, [...] made an indelible impression on us. The bloody, ruthless massacre of over a million Armenians by the Turks in 1915 in full view of the entire world reminded us our fate. The Armenians were starved to death, shot, drowned,
yudapearl: I've first learned about the Armenian genocide fairly late, in 1946, from a Hebrew translation of Franz Werfel's book (1933) "The forty days of Musa Dagh,". Why did it take so long?
aghavalyan: On April 24, I would like to thank Franz Werfel for taking the most crucial point in the history of the Armenian Genocide and bringing it to the world.
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is about resistance, the desire to live, and the will to struggle for life.
plastic_bio: Happiness is … the grace of being permitted to unfold … all the spiritual powers planted within us.
- Franz Werfel
plastic_bio: For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.
- Franz Werfel
Franz_K_Diaries: in the coffee-house with Werfel. How he looked from the distance, seated at the coffee-house table. Stooped, half reclining even in the wooden chair, the beautiful profile of his face pressed against his chest, his face almost wheezing in its
TheLeavingYear: The Prague-born author Franz Werfel wrote in November 1915: “Dear Kafka, you are so pure, new, independent, and perfect that one ought to treat you as if you were already dead and immortal.”
And this while Kafka was alive...
itamann: 3. in my dissertation work, I realized Masada had a transnational history, reimagined as the story of the Armenian genocide in Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. That book was a story of bravery that ended in genocide. The Armenians were Werfel's“stand-in Jews.”
ReligionandSpi2: 1936 THE ETERNAL ROAD UNUSED TICKET JEWISH ZIONIST OPERA FRANZ WERFEL KURT WEILL
fadopapi: Some other influences on me:
-Douglas Sirk
-Franz Werfel
-Georges Bernanos
-Pedro Almodovar
-Corin Tellado
-Raffaello Mattarazzo
-La Jeune France (and Olivier Messiaen)
AmschelKavka: All yesterday morning my head was as if filled with mist from Werfel's poems. For a moment I feared the enthusiasm would carry me among straight into nonsense.
Franz Kafka, 1911.
ReligionandSpi2: 1936 THE ETERNAL ROAD UNUSED TICKET JEWISH ZIONIST OPERA FRANZ WERFEL KURT WEILL
WomanToday2: In 2009, Müller enjoyed the greatest international success of her career. Her novel Atemschaukel (published in English as The Hunger Angel) was nominated for the Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) and won the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award. 13/
WomanToday2: In addition to the Nobel Prize, Müller has received more than twenty awards to date, including the Kleist Prize (1994), the Aristeion Prize (1995), the International Dublin Literary Award (1998) and the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award (2009). 24/end
MrCasey62: The author’s name was Franz Werfel:
The Song of Bernadette
PoetryTrain: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
Thebiblioboy: Check out Star of the Unborn Franz Werfel 1946 Viking 1st ed. Hardcover in Jacket Utopia
JamesMartinSJ: There are so many good books to read on Lourdes, including Ruth Harris's study "Lourdes," Rene Laurentin's biography "Bernadette of Lourdes" (and his "Bernadette Speaks") but, best of all, "The Song of Bernadette," by Franz Werfel. (You can also check out my "Lourdes Diary")....
TheOmbudsmans61: Why French Jews finally changed their view of the Armenian genocide
NReguez: The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel. Best.
vkjha62: Suvichar
Humility in the face of the unattainable, as well as the unease in the face of achievement, are both prerequisites for any mastery in life.
― Franz Werfel
tamar_marvin: Same situation, my mom handed me a Leon Uris and when I got through it in a few days, she was like, welp, I guess you’re ready for Tolstoy and Franz Werfel.
QuotesTodayForU: “Which road, which road did you takeThat brought you here at last?No road, no road did I take.I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.” - Franz Werfel
antonios_tash: Franz Werfel: the Jewish man who foresaw the Holocaust after witnessing the horrors of the Armenian Genocide. Author of “the forty days of Musa Dagh”. Not only are Jewish-Armenian histories intertwined, but our destinies as well !
a_perna: “Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment …”(Franz Werfel) Tisana 18/365
danielepantano: Franz Werfel has visited The Abandoned Playground.
abzeronow: 360. In 1926, there was an English translation of Austrian writer Franz Werfel's (1890-1945) 1925 play Juarez und Maximilian called Juarez and Maximilian about the 1860s invasion of Mexico by France. The play would be the basis of two 1930s films.
OCBishop: As I recall Franz Werfel in the Forward said that if he escaped the Nazis he would “sing the Song of Bernadette “.
jshocds: Based on the book by Jewish writer, Franz Werfel, it’s faithful enough to the events. I read Werfel’s book when a teenager & loved it. As you know, he wrote the book as homage to the shrine & religious of Lourdes for protecting him & his wife as they fled the Nazis. A worthy gift
Zoran54873135: New artwork for sale! - "Franz Werfel " -
Max166702: Wednesday is the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Now is a good time to watch the movie, The Song of Bernadette. Based on the true story as written by Franz Werfel, a Jew who was hidden in Lourdes during the Holocaust, in thanksgiving.
Franz_K_Diaries: 2 December. Afternoon at Werfels with Max and Pick. Read In the Penal Colony aloud; am not entirely dissatisfied, except for its glaring and ineradicable faults. Werfel read some poems and two acts of Esther, Kaiserin von Persien. The acts carry
Franz_K_Diaries: Liebe: Speckbacher is cutting a figure, by which they meant an officer leaning against the side of a box. The days conclusion, even before meeting Werfel: Go on working regardless of everything; a pity I cant work today, for I am tired and have
marcus_noland: As a participant in the Varian Fry network personally helped Franz Werfel and Heinrich Mann escape the Nazis; joined the French Resistance, escaped from a prison camp, joined the US Army and was awarded a Bronze Star. RIP
RockPlaza: One of my current projects "brief asides/tangents" broke 50k words recently, so I clipped off another tangent to work on for a bit, to try to "finish" something, and it's now over 8k and I'm reading the sermon-lectures of Franz Werfel from the 1930s.
