Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1941-1947.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Polak, Ernst, 1886-1947.

Language:

English

German

Physical Description:

9 items (14 leaves)

Contained In:

Mahler-Werfel Papers. Folder 941.

Place of Publication:

1941-1947.

Language Note:

In German and English.

Biography/History:

Polak was a good friend of Franz Werfel since Werfel's youth in Prague; he edited a number of Werfel's works. He had emigrated to England and was living in London at the time of the correspondence. He had contact there with Anna Mahler.

Summary:

In Polak's 3 letters to Werfel, topics include the bombing of London during the war and a nervous breakdown. The remaining items are to Alma Mahler after Werfel's death; 2 of these concern Alma's memoir. She had apparently given Polak a manuscript to read in the hope that he would collaborate with her; he responds at length, but declines to undertake the work, feeling he does not have sufficient distance from the material.