Carl Mayer

Emerging from a difficult upbringing in Graz, the Austrian screenwriter left school at fifteen after his father's suicide, worked as a secretary, and later pursued dramatics in Innsbruck and Vienna before joining Berlin's Residenztheater in 1917, where a friendship with actress Gilda Langer led to his first major screenplay, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). His talent quickly positioned him… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources