Max Ferner
Max Ferner was a German playwright, born Maximilian Sommer on 18 April 1881. He died in Munich at the age of 59 on 9 October 1940.
Ferner teamed up with his friend Max Neal to write librettos for two operettas for the Austrian composer Karl Michael Ziehrer, which were performed in September 1913 and again in February 1916.
Ferner also wrote and co-wrote with Neal a series of plays, many of which were later converted to movies.
Plays
- Der müde Theodor
- Fürst Casimir, operetta by Karl Michael Ziehrer
- Im siebenten Himmel, operetta by Karl Michael Ziehrer
- ''Der Hunderter im Westentaschl''
Filmography
- Der müde Theodor
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- Der müde Theodor
- Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine
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- ''Tired Theodore''
Screenwriter
- A Song from Days of Youth
- The Shot in the Pavilion
- Marccos erste Liebe
- The Secret of One Hour
- The [Seventh Son |The Seventh Son]
- Secret Sinners
- I [Lost My Heart in Heidelberg |I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg]
- The Mountain Eagle
- Valencia
- My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You
- The Foreign Legionnaire
- Spy of Madame Pompadour
- Restless Hearts
- The Fate [of the House of Habsburg]
- Behind Monastery Walls
- Waterloo
- Im Banne der Berge
- ''At the Strasbourg''