March 9, 1902 — Gustav Mahler and Alma Schindler are married
Mahler and Schindler first met in November of 1901. Their marriage was considered a bad idea by most of their...
February 12, 2020
Alma
April 1, 1919 — Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus School
The Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar, Germany (the town, not the government) by Walter Gropius, an architect. Ironically, as...
September 19, 2019
July 6, 1929 — Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler are married
Franz Werfel was husband number three for Alma Mahler. She’d already been having an affair with him and even living...
June 4, 2019
1942 — Franz Werfel’s “The Song of Bernadette” is published
A Jew from Prague who fled the Aunschluss in 1938, Franz Werfel was also a playwright noted for his satirical...
December 29, 2018
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