Werner, Oskar 1922-1984

Overview

Works:	104 works in 282 publications in 8 languages and 8,765 library holdings
Roles:	Actor, Performer, Creator, Costume designer, Other, Editor, Narrator
Classifications:	pn1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Oskar Werner

Publications by Oskar Werner

Publications by Oskar Werner, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Oskar Werner

Oskar Werner : Maske, Mythos, Mensch : Biographie by M Mazura ( Book )
Oskar Werner : eine Spurensicherung by Attila Endre Láng ( Book )
Oskar Werner - das Filmbuch ( Book )
Oskar Werner : ein Nachklang by Robert Dachs ( Book )
Oskar Werner, 1922-1984 : welch einen sonderbaren Traum träumt' ich ( Book )

Oskar Werner : Genie und Fetzenschädl by Robert Dachs ( Book )
Oskar Werner : Abgründe eines Giganten by Robert Dachs ( Book )
Oskar Werner : ein Monodrama by Wilhelm Pellert ( Book )
Werner, Oskar: Actor by Martin Quigley ( Book )
Oskar Werner zum 70. Geburtstag : eine Ausstellung der Max Reinhardt-Forschungsstätte Salzburg ... : 29 Juli bis 30 August 1992 ... 13 April bis 16 Juni 1993 ( Book )
Oskar Werner zum 70. : eine Ausstellung der Max Reinhardt-Forschungsstätte Salzburg ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Oskar Werner

Fahrenheit 451 ( Visual )
34 editions published between 1966 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 2,131 libraries worldwide
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.

The spy who came in from the cold ( Visual )
19 editions published between 1965 and 2006 in English and held by 856 libraries worldwide
A burnt-out British spy defects to East Germany as a ruse to feed false information to the government.

Jules et Jim Jules and Jim ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1999 and 2010 in French and Italian and held by 794 libraries worldwide
Two friends fall in love with the same woman, who has great difficulty choosing between them. Over the ensuing decades the 3 remain close friends, despite the sexual tension inherent in their situation.

Jules et Jim Jules and Jim ( Visual )
16 editions published between 1962 and 2006 in French and held by 658 libraries worldwide
Considered Truffaut's greatest film, this is a story of friendship between two artists and their mutual love for the same woman.

Jules et Jim ( Visual )
38 editions published between 1961 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 441 libraries worldwide
The friendship of Jules, who is German, and Jim, who is French, and their twenty year love for the same woman.

The spy who came in from the cold ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 420 libraries worldwide
After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent is assigned to pretend he is defecting, but soon suspects that the layers of betrayal go far beyond what was originally expected.

The shoes of the fisherman ( Visual )
4 editions published between 2000 and 2006 in English and held by 383 libraries worldwide
All eyes are focused on the Vatican, hoping to see the puffs of white smoke signaling the selection of the next Pope, but this time, much more is at stake, for the new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear war.

Lola Montès ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1955 and 2009 in French and German and held by 367 libraries worldwide
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.

Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 324 libraries worldwide
In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.

Jules et Jim Jules and Jim ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1986 and 1992 in French and English and held by 231 libraries worldwide
A lighthearted story about two close friends (Jules and Jim) involved with the same woman (Catherine). She marries Jules but eventually begins an affair with Jim. The three remain close until Catherine commits an irrevocable act to finally disrupt the triangle of love and friendship.

Lola Montès ( Visual )
13 editions published between 1955 and 2010 in French and English and held by 202 libraries worldwide
Depicts, through flashbacks, the life of a famous courtesan, recounted as part of a lavish circus act. The ringmaster introduces and displays Lola Montés who recalls her romances with Franz Liszt, a student, and Ludwig, King of Bavaria before she was reduced by scandal, poverty and ill fortune to her present life as a circus performer.

Voyage of the damned the true story of survival ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 184 libraries worldwide
Departing Hamburg in high spirits, 937 Jewish Germans have been offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba, in 1939. The passengers are looking forward to their new life. However, the whole voyage is actually a Nazi propaganda scheme and the passengers are never really intended to be allowed ashore once they reach their destination. After weeks of unsuccessful pleas they are forced to return back to Europe. Based on the tragic 1939 voyage of the SS St. Louis.

Decision before dawn ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2006 and 2010 in English and German and held by 173 libraries worldwide
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US Army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information.

Voyage of the damned ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1992 and 1999 in English and held by 119 libraries worldwide
A group of German Jews, trying to avoid Nazi oppression in Germany, leave on a ship bound for Cuba and freedom, only to be forbidden to leave the ship when they reach Havana.

Ship of fools ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1965 and 2007 in English and held by 62 libraries worldwide
In 1933, a motley crew of passengers embarks on a fateful, transatlantic sea voyage to Germany. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.

Stanley Kramer film collection ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 55 libraries worldwide

Jules et Jim by François Truffaut ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in French and held by 39 libraries worldwide

Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1966 and 2002 in French and English and held by 13 libraries worldwide
"Dans un pays imaginaire, les pompiers brûlent les livres car lire est interdit. Montag, l¹un des pompiers, est marié à Linda. Un jour, il croise Clarisse, qui ressemble étrangement à sa femme...

Novelle by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( Recording )
4 editions published between 1959 and 1995 in German and English and held by 12 libraries worldwide

Tragödien by Aeschylus ( Book )
1 edition published in 1996 in German and held by 12 libraries worldwide

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