Alfred Schirokauer

Alfred Schirokauer was a German novelist and screenwriter. He also directed three films during the silent era. Many films were based on his novels including several adaptations of Lucrezia Borgia. After the rise of the Nazi Party to power in 1933 the Jewish Schirokauer emigrated to Amsterdam and then to Austria where he died the following year.

Novels

Die graue Macht
Ferdinand Lassalle. Ein Leben für Freiheit und Liebe
Lukrezia Borgia
Die Frau von gestern und morgen
Die unmögliche Liebe
''Paiva, Queen of Love''

Play

''Karriere''

Selected filmography

Ferdinand Lassalle, directed by Rudolf Meinert
Die graue Macht, directed by Fred Stranz The Woman of Yesterday and Tomorrow, directed by Heinz Paul
Careers, directed by John Francis Dillon
Impossible Love, directed by Erich Waschneck
Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Abel Gance
Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Luis Bayón Herrera
Idol of Paris, directed by Leslie Arliss
Lucrèce Borgia, directed by Christian-Jaque

Screenwriter

Werner Krafft George Bully The Leap in the Dark The Night of Decision The Big Boss The Fountain of Madness Camera Obscura The Favourite of the Queen The Path to God The Lion of Venice A Woman for 24 Hours Your Desire Is Sin The Flower Woman of Potsdam Square The Dealer from Amsterdam Cock of the Roost Cab No. 13 The Flight in the Night Circus Romanelli Tea Time in the Ackerstrasse Students' Love The Orlov The Girl Without a Homeland The Hunt for the Bride Intoxicated Love The Island of Forbidden Kisses A Day of Roses in August Poor Little Colombine Always Be True and Faithful Heaven on Earth Adam and Eve Herkules Maier Autobus Number Two The Runaway Princess Miss Midshipman Storm of Love Marriage in Name Only Boycott Two People The Case of Colonel Redl Student Life in Merry Springtime Elisabeth of Austria

''De Familie van mijn Vrouw''