Erich Schönfelder
Erich Schoenfelder ( born April 23 1885 in Frankfurt / Main, † May 14, 1933 in Berlin) was a German actor and film director.
Life
Schoenfelder began as a 18 -year-old his acting career, which he pursued first in a touring theater, then, from 1920, in the German capital. There he was, as he gave information itself, " no fewer than seven theaters in Berlin [ ... ] worked as a comedian " and "here, as I believe created a good name. " First screenplays he wrote with Ernst Lubitsch and Hanns Kräly, then brought him Paul Davidson as an actor for the film, where he worked first in comic roles.
Producer Paul Heidemann sat Schoenfelder from 1920 as a film director. With the then very popular Ossi Oswaldo as the lead actress he soon saw some box-office successes. Schoenfelder specialized in rather simple entertainment films such as military farces, comedies of mistaken identity and other comedies. Was a great success in this genre of film Princess Trulala with Lilian Harvey. But with the filming of the Gerhart -Hauptmann- drama he employed The beaver also with a high artistic standard fabric.