Name
Adolf Paul
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1863-01-06
Deathday
1943-09-30 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Bromö, Vänern, Sweden
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
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Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (19...
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In a prologue and four acts (the prologue and the first act are lost so is necessary to de...
- 1916 The Artificial Man as o. A.
- 1916 The Mysterious Book as o. A.
- 1917 The Destruction of Mankind as o. A.
- 1918 The End of the Homunculus as o. A.
- 1917 The Revenge of the Homunculus as o. A.
- 1916 The Love Tragedy of the Homunculus as o. A.
- 1918 Mitternacht as Axel Smirnow
