Van wie was Alma Mahler-Werfel?

Alma Maria Schindler (Wenen, 31 augustus 1879 - New York, 11 december 1964), bekend geworden als Alma Mahler-Werfel, was een Oostenrijkse componist die later de Amerikaanse nationaliteit verkreeg. Zij had affaires met enkele bekende kunstenaars en was getrouwd met achtereenvolgens de componist Gustav Mahler, de architect Walter Gropius en de schrijver Franz Werfel.

Franz Viktor Werfel (German: [fʁant͡s ˈvɛʁfl̩] ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.