Adolf Paul

Actor, Writer

January 6, 1863 — September 30, 1943 (80 years)
Adolf Georg Wiedersheim-Paul was a Swedish writer of novels/plays and an actor. In 1892 he published a collection of short stories called "The Ripper", in which one chapter entitled "Vanitas" concerns a homosexual liasion between a priest and a schoolboy in Weimar, Germany, while "Oedipus i Norden" is a mother-son incest story from Scandinavia. Adolf Paul lived most of his adult life in Berlin, Germany, where he was a close friend of Swedish writer August Strindberg, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, and Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

Known For

  • The End of the Homunculus
    The End of the Homunculus1917

Filmography

1920
1919
Comrades · as Screenplay
1919
Die Teufelskirche · as Screenplay
1913
Das schwarze Los · as Screenplay

1919
Die Augen im Walde · as Novel "dornröschen