Writing · geboren 1894-11-20 · Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Carl Mayer

Carl Mayer (20 November 1894 – 1 July 1944) was an Austrian screenwriter who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Head of Janus (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and 4 Devils (1928), most of them being films directed by F. W. Murnau. Mayer was a fundamental figure in the dramatic and narrative establishment of both German Expressionist cinema and Kammerspielfilm.

Bekannt aus

• Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) – Screenplay
• Sonnenaufgang – Lied von zwei Menschen (1927) – Screenplay
• Der letzte Mann (1924) – Screenplay
• Der Roman eines Blumenmädchens (1938) – Script Consultant
• Berlin, Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (1927) – Idea
• Herr Tartüff (1926) – Writer
• Schloß Vogelöd (1921) – Screenplay
• Genuine, die Tragödie eines seltsamen Hauses (1920) – Writer
• Das blaue Licht (1932) – Writer
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005) – Story
• Der Gang in die Nacht (1921) – Writer
• Hintertreppe (1921) – Writer
• Scherben (1921) – Writer
• Wie es euch gefällt (1936) – Adaptation
• Sylvester (1924) – Writer
• Stürme über dem Mont Blanc (1930) – Writer
• Erdgeist (1923) – Writer
• Verlogene Moral (1921) – Screenplay
• Fräulein Else (1929) – Writer
• Ariane (1931) – Writer
• Vanina oder Die Galgenhochzeit (1922) – Writer
• 4 Devils (1928) – Scenario Writer
• Der Mann, der den Mord beging (1931) – Dialogue
• Danton (1921) – Screenplay
• Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932) – Screenplay
• Mélo (1932) – Writer
• Dreaming Lips (1937) – Writer
• Grausige Nächte (1921) – Screenplay
• Der träumende Mund (1932) – Writer
• Der Puppenmacher von Kiang-Ning (1923) – Writer
• Die Frau im Käfig (1919) – Writer
• Johannes Goth (1920) – Writer
• Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin (1920) – Screenplay
• Der Dummkopf (1921) – Screenplay