Franz Werfel, Jacobowsky und der Oberst [Jacobowsky and the Colonel]

Hans Wagener (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.2: German-language Writing and Culture: Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 800-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1940

Places

Czech Republic (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

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Jacobowsky und der Oberst

[

Jacobowsky and the Colonel

] was first published in 1944 in German in Stockholm by the exile publishing firm of Bermann-Fischer. In 1945 it appeared as an American textbook edition, edited by Gustave O. Arlt, with introduction and notes for students of German, unique for a major German drama (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts). The first English edition appeared in 1944 (transl. Gustave O. Arlt. New York: Viking). Werfel had written the comedy based on the story of a banker from Stuttgart by the name of Stefan S. Jakobowics whom he had met on his own flight from the advancing German troops in Lourdes, France, and who had told him about his flight from Paris in the company of a Polish colonel.

The action of the play is as follows: In the summer of 1940 the Germans

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Citation: Wagener, Hans. "Jacobowsky und der Oberst". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 September 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=22185, accessed 16 April 2024.]

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