Erich Schönfelder Explained

Erich Schönfelder
Birth Date:	23 April 1885
Birth Place:	Frankfurt am Main, German Empire
Death Place:	Berlin, Germany
Occupation:	Actor, Screenwriter, Film Director
Yearsactive:	1916–1932

Erich Schönfelder (1885–1933) was a German screenwriter, actor, and film director of the silent and early sound eras. Early in his career he worked frequently with Ernst Lubitsch.

Selected filmography

Writer

• Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916)
• When Four Do the Same (1917)
• My Wife, the Movie Star (1919)
• Meyer from Berlin (1919)
• Love at the Wheel (1921)

Actor

• The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917)
• The Toboggan Cavalier (1918)
• Ruth's Two Husbands (1919)
• Hunted Men (1924)
• Struggle for the Soil (1925)
• Fight of the Tertia (1929)
• The Copper (1930)

Director

• The Bull of Olivera (1921)
• Miss Rockefeller Is Filming (1922)
• In the Name of the King (1924)
• Women of Luxury (1925)
• The Woman with That Certain Something (1925)
• Princess Trulala (1926)
• Grandstand for General Staff (1926)
• Marie's Soldier (1927)
• How Do I Marry the Boss? (1927)
• The Woman from Till 12 (1928)
• Der Ladenprinz (1928)
• The Beaver Coat (1928)
• From a Bachelor's Diary (1929)
• Come Back, All Is Forgiven (1929)
• Busy Girls (1930)
• Next, Please! (1930)
• Mischievous Miss (1930)
• A Crafty Youth (1931)
• The Secret of the Red Cat (1931)
• Contest (1932)
• At Your Orders, Sergeant (1932)

Bibliography

• Hake, Sabine Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch. Princeton University Press, 1992.
• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: Jewish Presences in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2007.