Add/Update Information: Carl Mayer - Writer

An Austrian writer, born in Graz, Austria. He is the son of a stock speculator, who committed suicide. He was forced to leave school at the age of fifteen and went to work as a secretary. He moved from Graz to Innsbruck and then Vienna, where he worked as a playwright, and the events of World War I turned him into a pacifist. In 1917, he moved to Berlin, where he worked in a small hotel, and fell in love with the actress Gilda Langer. He wrote several works including Sunrise (1927) and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Dreamy Mouth (1932), and Ariane (1931).