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...formidable Alma Mahler. One of history's supreme narcissists, she betrayed her first husband, composer Gustav Mahler, by having affairs with both Gropius and painter Oskar Kokoschka. After Gustav's death, it was Gropius she wed, only to leap a few years later into the arms of writer Franz Werfel. (Watch TIME's video "The Haus of Modern Design...
Attendees said they appreciated the multidimensional nature of the talk. “I love reading folklore,” said Erica Werfel, a local therapist. “Tatar’s description about the role of story-telling was very useful...
Production: Laura A. Conboy, Joseph M. Eugenio, Kim E. Werfel...
Taylor's book is a parade of names, from Walter Gropius to Franz Werfel, two men who not only shared the same fate but the same wife, Alma. The anecdotes are diverting, and the history is brisk and precise. But Taylor's work lacks the tragic dimension of Heilbut's book. The difference is evident in the titles. It is one thing to be a stranger and quite another to be an exile, forced from a country, a tradition and a language, to become, in Einstein's phrase, "a bird of passage for . . . life...
...like many of his later works (Rain from Heaven, Wine of Choice). No Time for Comedy (1939), the story of a writer who wants to be serious yet has a gift mainly for entertainment, reflected Behrman's own situation; but in several plays, including his adaptation of Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), he successfully fused comedy with drama. A celebrated raconteur, Behrman delighted his many friends, among them Greta Garbo, for whom he did the screenplays of Queen Christina and Anna Karenina. In later years Behrman wrote biographies of Lord Duveen and Max Beerbohm...