Adolf Paul

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1863-01-06

Deathday 1943-09-30 (80 years old)

Place of Birth Bromö, Vänern, Sweden

Adolf Paul

Biography

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

Writer

1930
One Mad Kiss

as Story

1926
The Palace of Pleasure

as Theatre Play

1921
1921
Exzellenz Unterrock

as Screenplay

1920
1919
The Devil's Church

as Screenplay

1919
Kameraden

as Screenplay

1918
Lola Montez

as Novel

1913
Das schwarze Los

as Screenplay